going-flying.com gemini git repository
36952b78790725b1cd37219ff23de503b29a4b6c - Matthew Ernisse - 1649384894
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diff --git a/build/build.py b/build/build.py
index 872f513..0514630 100755
--- a/build/build.py
+++ b/build/build.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import datetime
+import feedparser
import jinja2
import os
import pytz
@@ -8,6 +9,10 @@ import re
import sys
from feedgen.feed import FeedGenerator
+from urllib.parse import quote_plus as quote
+
+sys.path.append('/var/gemini/capcom')
+import gusmobile
URLBASE = 'gemini://going-flying.com/~mernisse/'
@@ -84,7 +89,7 @@ class GeminiFeed(object):
''' Wrapper for FeedGenerator that contains way too many hardcoded
defaults.
'''
- def __init__(self):
+ def __init__(self, fn=None):
self.feed = FeedGenerator()
self.feed.id('gemini://going-flying.com/~mernisse/')
self.feed.title('~mernisse')
@@ -101,13 +106,40 @@ class GeminiFeed(object):
rel='self'
)
+ self.file_name = fn
+
+ # If there is already a gemlog atom feed sitting on disk save
+ # the date of it so that we can notify Antenna if we end up
+ # having new posts in it.
+ self.last_date = 0
+ if os.path.exists(self.file_name):
+ try:
+ parsed = feedparser.parse(self.file_name)
+ except Exception as e:
+ print(f'Failed to load {fn}: {e!s}')
+ return
+
+ self.last_date = parsed['feed']['updated']
+
def add(self, title, link, pubdate):
+ ''' Add an entry to the feed. '''
entry = self.feed.add_entry()
entry.title(title)
entry.id(link)
entry.updated(pubdate)
entry.link(href=link, rel='alternate')
+ def should_notify(self):
+ ''' Return True if we should notifiy services that we've
+ updated the feed.'''
+ if self.last_date == 0:
+ return False
+
+ if self.feed['updated'] <= self.last_date:
+ return False
+
+ return True
+
def write(self, fn):
self.feed.atom_file(fn)
@@ -176,7 +208,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
adir = os.path.join(bdir, 'articles')
tdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
- feed = GeminiFeed()
+ feed = GeminiFeed(os.path.join(bdir, 'feed.xml'))
with open(os.path.join(tdir, 'template.txt'), encoding='utf-8') as fd:
article_template = fd.read()
@@ -226,3 +258,14 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
fd.write(index_template.render({'articles': articles}))
feed.write(os.path.join(bdir, 'atom.xml'))
+ if not feed.should_notify():
+ sys.exit()
+
+ myurl = quote('gemini://going-flying.com/~mernisse/atom.xml')
+
+ # gusmobile has a bug where it needs the port in the URL I guess.
+ url = 'gemini://warmedal.se:1965/~antenna/submit'
+ # resp = gusmobile.fetch(f'{url}?{myurl}')
+ # if not resp.status == 20:
+ # print('Failed to notify Antenna')
+ print(f'Would call {url}?{myurl}')
diff --git a/users/mernisse/articles/26.gmi b/users/mernisse/articles/26.gmi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c267b71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/users/mernisse/articles/26.gmi
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+---
+Title: USENET Notes
+Date: 04/07/2022 22:15
+
+Around 20 years ago I was early enough in my career that I still harbored
+the illusion that there was any way to hold back the insanity of people.
+My frustrations were mounting and I found solace in reading things from
+similarly beset individuals. Simon Travaglia's BOFH[1] was an early
+companion. There were also forums, mailing lists and USENET news groups
+where one could express themselves.
+
+=> http://bofharchive.com [1]
+
+Over the years I stopped using most of these things, largely because I
+entered a form of recovery from the systems administration trade and went
+into a somewhat more well thanked field... sales. Late last year though
+I went and started poking around USENET again. It is much less active
+than before however it is still there (it predates the Internet, after all)
+and there are still interesting topics being discussed regularly. It
+got me thinking a bit about my website[2] and I was about start working
+on a NNTP frontend when I discovered that the kind soul who wrote
+gmane[3] also wrote a RSS to news gateway, gwene[4]. I promptly put my
+RSS feed and registered the newsgroup gwene.com.going-flying.blog[5].
+
+=> https://www.going-flying.com/
+=> https://gmane.io/
+=> https://gwene.org/
+=> nntp://news.gwene.org/gwene.com.going-flying.blog/
+
+It does a pretty good job, though since my RSS feed contains HTML you
+will want a news reader that understands HTML. That being said I render
+a pretty minimal markup for RSS articles and I include the full article
+text so it should be a pretty good experience to read for gemini
+enthusiasts.