README.md

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 # Cute Seal Fanpage
 
-> An experiment using [Nix](https://nixos.org/),
+> An experiment using [Nix](https://nixos.org/), [Hakyll](https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/), [Haskell](https://www.haskell.org/), and [shell scripts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell) to automate a simple website deployment pipeline.
-> [Hakyll](https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/),
-> [Haskell](https://www.haskell.org/),
-> and [shell scripts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell)
-> to automate a simple website deployment pipeline.
 
 ## Why Seals?
 
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 seal-blog/
 
-- `flake.nix`
+- devops/
-  - The specification for everything is repo can do.
+  - build.sh
-  - Defines the hakyll site build instructions, as well as sets it as an app to be run with `nix run .#hakyll-site`.
+    - Uses a [nix-shell](https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Development_environment_with_nix-shell) expression to build the Hakyll executable
-  - Defines the blog generation command as an app to be run with `nix run .#generateSealPosts`.
+
-  - Creates a shell with the same ghc installed, as well as other haskell tools.
+  - configuration.nix
-    - For use with `nix develop .` or [direnv](https://direnv.net)
+    - The [configuration file for the NixOS](https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/index.html#ch-configuration) production server. This takes care of installing all the necessary software, setup [Nginx](https://www.nginx.com/), and get [ACME certs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Certificate_Management_Environment) for verification.
-- `site.hs`
+
-  - The hakyll blog is defined here.
+  - newSealPost.sh
-  - Pulls in the rest of the files in this repo and creates a static site at `_site`.
+    - Script to be called daily by a cron job on the server. Generates the post for the day, builds and commits.
-- `config.dhall`
+
-  - The config file for the blog generation, run with `nix run .#generateSealPosts`.
+- website/
-  - Uses a pseudo random number generator, change the seed to see different outputs in the `postsOutputPath` (default `./posts/`).
+  - A basic Hakyll site, slightly modified to serve seals. Most of the site is generated from the `site.hs` file. Check the [Hakyll](https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/) documentation for more info.
-- The rest of the code is related to the static hakyll site itself.
+
-  - I've tried putting it in it's own `src` or `website` folder but
+## Work to be done
-    - it feels like needless refactoring
+
-    - I can't get the flake operations to work :(
+- The blog post generation and the hosting of the website are currently intertwined when they should be separated
+  - Seal post generator just makes posts
+  - Hakyll blog imports or calls the post generator
+  - The deployed server/nix config file has a cron job for adding a new blog and committing every day
+- Need to move the blog and post generation inside nixos-apps on my beefier server
+  - The configuration file here is for it's own Linode, the current small one running, but I have a better setup for that now
+  - Pull out the useful parts for my deployed server, remove anything not necessary for a small config file
+  - Also switch to using caddy if not already
+- Experiment with `*` A records
+  - For the seal blog
+  - Instead of having `www` and `git` and `...` subdomains spelled out in Namecheap
+  - Just have a `*` record and have caddy do the filtering

website.cabal

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+name:               website
+version:            0.1.0.0
+build-type:         Simple
+cabal-version:      >= 1.10
+
+executable site
+  main-is:          site.hs
+  build-depends:    base == 4.*
+                  , hakyll == 4.13.*
+  ghc-options:      -threaded
+  default-language: Haskell2010