autogopher
2026-07-03

I'm working on a few changes to this gopher hole to reduce friction
when publishing content. Nothing fancy, but I'd like to automate
generating my gophermap, setting file permissions, etc.

The first thing I'm adding is a simple frontmatter scheme for posts,
where each post will start with a title and optional date to populate
the gophermap. I don't want to label lines in the frontmatter, so
it's just going to be a simple convention using the ordering of lines 
before the first empty line in a file.

	example post
	============
	1  title
	2  date
	3  <empty>
	4  This is the beginning of post content
	5  and more content
	6  ...

I'm using a python script to generate my gophermap. All it needs to
do is walk the directories where I'm storing posts and grab the first
few lines of frontmatter to list posts by date and title. Files that
are not world-readable are considered drafts and skipped. It then 
lists each set of posts in reverse order by date. Simple.