2021-03-24 15:44:46 So I've got the bare minimum set up for this journ…

[qmacro]

So I've got the bare minimum set up for this journal, in the thinking-aloud repository:

• issues to contain my journal entries, and possibly conversations about them (via the comments)
• a simple Atom feed generator that will build an Atom 1.0 feed from a JSON list of issues that I can retrieve from the GitHub API - the feed's URL is https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qmacro/thinking-aloud/main/feed.xml
• labels that I can assign to the issues for eventual categorisation (I have made provision for this in the feed generator already)
• a GitHub Actions workflow that is triggered when an issue is created or edited and causes the feed to be rebuilt

This was a pleasant few hours messing around on a day off. Well, I say pleasant, there was one unpleasant part which was trying (and failing) to parse and use the output from the octokit/request-action.

The silver lining in this though is that I realised that I could just use the gh CLI, as long as I supply the GITHUB_TOKEN env var with the appropriate (and auto-generated) secret value, like this:

- name: Generate feed
  env:
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
  run: |
    gh api "/repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/issues?sort=created&direction=descending" \
      | ./feed \
      | tee feed.xml

If you're interested in following these journal entries, add the feed URL to your favourite feed reader: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qmacro/thinking-aloud/main/feed.xml, and if you want to comment on any of the entries, you can do so in the comments to the corresponding issue.

[se71]

I don't pretend to follow any of that :)

[qmacro]

That's OK, there's a lot of stuff I read that I don't follow. It all adds to the fabric layers of knowledge. Thanks for the comment, I think you're the first!