A Taskfile-Powered Blog Engine

A way to integrate Taskfile with Jekyll without dependencies on local system

local developement jsut requires tooling

Taskfile

Taskfile is a task runner / build tool that aims to be simpler to use than Make, Rake, or Gulp.

source: taskfile.dev

So far I have came up with two somewhat useful commands:

task mdimg -- "the prompt for image generation"
task post -- "the prompt for a new post"

And so far I haven’t made it a template AI generated blog yet, but something simple like generating the date in the filename and maybe later chain it and then move onto the editor.

date +%Y-%m-%d

Neovim

Normally vim doesn’t do a graceful job at inserting stdout text and requires some macros to format the text from terminal stdout. I have discovered this little gem.

  :redir @a
  :!task mdimg -- "the prompt for image generation" 
  :redir END
  :0put =@a

As discussed in my previous post, I have been using this to generate images for my blog posts as I write.

To Do

• Add a template for AI generated blog posts
• Add a template for AI generated blog post images / Perhaps a gum TUI/form
• Add a yaml header to the blog post. Jekyll has a very nice way of doing this with front matter. But much of it can be streamlined without installing ruby gem bundler on a native mint system. a 17 MB task can handle pretty much all of this.