In the last few months, I’ve been working extensively on my transition to Platform Engineering, and that includes my online profile. The very fact that you’re reading this means, I may modestly say, that it’s working!
Today, a short write-up about a nice improvement to my GitHub Profile: automatically listing my latest blog posts. Since I use the Hugo Papermod theme, I had to make sure the site was producing an RSS feed. This is achieved by ensuring that hugo.yaml has RSS as an element of outputs.home. Additionally, I added the RSS icon to my header by adding the following element to params.socialIcons:
- name: rss
url: "https://fabriciojm.github.io/index.xml"
Now that the site is producing an RSS feed, we can simply follow the instructions by Gautam Krishna R to add a workflow to the GitHub profile page: https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/blog-post-workflow. They are easy to follow, and that’s about it: a list of the last five posts appears on the profile page!
To be fair, this is nothing new, and it’s fairly straightforward to figure out. I still find two valuable things about it:
- I wanted to copy something I like. There’s something about reading other people’s writing that you can’t figure out in any other way. Hopefully, this will give you some insight into how I learn and build.
- I left the GitHub Actions workflow untouched. It has a parameter to set how many blog posts it will show (
max_post_count), whose default value is five. When the result appeared on my page, the list couldn’t show all my posts because (drum roll) I had already published six posts, and this would be the seventh. I got a small (but great) sense of accomplishment out of that.