over the past week-and-change i:

• built a working blog-generating crate
• decided on the underlying abstraction for blog/reblog
• rebuilt a working blog-generating crate
• wrote up a project page

all told: very proud of the progress! it runs fast enough (on an admittedly very small blog) that i can just watch -n0.1 it and get live updates even before i implement them.

at the same time, there's kind of not much to log. probably 90% of the code has been entirely rewritten, as is tradition for my projects this early on. i've nailed down the core abstractions and figured out how i can build features like i18n, but there's already a bit of tech debt to tackle and some still-missing functionality. (the index page is still manually updated, for example, and i have to manually copy the git repo in.)

in building this very first version, i've realized that i have a lot of work to do. some tools i need just don't seem to exist, at least not that i can find. nothing imminent, though, and it won't stop me from getting things to work, but it means this is gonna have a lot of spinoffs.

still, i'm in a good place! and it's in a good place to continue development.

by next week, i'm hoping to:

• clean up the public api to make the crate much easier to use
• write a very basic cli to make it technically cargo installable
• polish the project page to make it better to point people to

p.s.: if you're familiar with rust, i can walk you through trying it yourself. it requires creating a rust project, for now, but the code you'd write is pretty simple! just boilerplatey.