The net result is this, as you read it. If you’re reading this, you’re either still using RSS or you’re a sucker for parsing XML with your eyes. I set this all up on my phone - the joys of parenthood - with a fair chunk of frustration, but also a lot of joy. I’m free to write some shit, and whoever chooses to read it needs to go a little further to do so. Seems good to me.

I’ll get into the stack/setup in another post. But this time not from my phone. Markdown is weird on a mobile keyboard.

kk so it’s all just CloudFront and S3, but the magic is just mdrss and lefthook.

My lefthook.yaml looks like this, at time of writing:

pre-commit:
  parallel: true
  commands:
    mdrss-update:
      run: mdrss update && git add public/
      glob: "markdown/**/*.md"

pre-push:
  parallel: true
  commands:
    deploy-prod:
      only:
        - ref: main
      run: aws s3 sync public/ s3://oval.co.za-073653558623-af-south-1-an/ --region af-south-1 --delete
    invalidate-prod:
      only:
        - ref: main
      run: aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id E1CWQPMZT6JB9X --paths "/*"
    deploy-staging:
      skip:
        - ref: main
      run: aws s3 sync public/ s3://staging.oval.co.za-073653558623-af-south-1-an/ --region af-south-1 --delete
    invalidate-staging:
      skip:
        - ref: main
      run: aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id d14s5w4erp0kqk --paths "/*"

So it’s relatively simple and just gets out of the way. I use mise to make it easier to run particular versions of those tools, and the rest is pretty straightforward. Thank you for attending my TED talk.