From 5247c708f57342880873cb1fb9441666f3affa6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Goussas <alexandergoussas.thoughtworks@latam.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:45:17 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] finish beta pipeline for processing blog posts

---
 README.md                                     |  5 ++
 bin/blog-processor/src/html_formatter.zig     |  4 +-
 bin/blog-processor/src/main.zig               | 14 ++++--
 bin/blog-processor/src/root.zig               | 49 +++++++++++++++++--
 posts/06-05-2026-language-checkpoint-april.md |  5 +-
 index.html => public/index.html               |  0
 styles.css => public/styles.css               |  0
 templates/index.html                          | 13 +++++
 8 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
 rename index.html => public/index.html (100%)
 rename styles.css => public/styles.css (100%)
 create mode 100644 templates/index.html

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7515ba5..58352cc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
+# frustrated-functor.dev
 
+My personal blog.
 
+I write my entries in markdown files that I convert into HTML with a Zig program I built.
+
+The public assets are then deployed in a Dockerfile for ease and portability.
 
 ## Notes
 
diff --git a/bin/blog-processor/src/html_formatter.zig b/bin/blog-processor/src/html_formatter.zig
index 99644ba..95d6be3 100644
--- a/bin/blog-processor/src/html_formatter.zig
+++ b/bin/blog-processor/src/html_formatter.zig
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ const stdC = @cImport({
     @cInclude("stdio.h");
 });
 
-const Options = struct {
+pub const Options = struct {
     template: ?[]const u8, 
 };
 
-const HtmlFormatter = struct {
+pub const HtmlFormatter = struct {
     buffer: std.ArrayList(u8),
     opts: Options,
 
diff --git a/bin/blog-processor/src/main.zig b/bin/blog-processor/src/main.zig
index a624fad..d9bb7b2 100644
--- a/bin/blog-processor/src/main.zig
+++ b/bin/blog-processor/src/main.zig
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
 const std = @import("std");
 const blog_processor = @import("blog_processor");
 
-pub fn main() !void {
-    const alloc = std.heap.page_allocator;
-    const arena = std.heap.ArenaAllocator.init(alloc);
-    _ = arena;
+pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void {
+    var dirName: []const u8 = undefined;
+    var args_iter = std.process.Args.iterate(init.minimal.args);
+    _ = args_iter.next(); // Skip exec name
+    while (args_iter.next()) |arg| {
+        dirName = arg;
+        break;
+    }
+
+    try blog_processor.processBlog(init.arena.allocator(), init.io, dirName);
 }
diff --git a/bin/blog-processor/src/root.zig b/bin/blog-processor/src/root.zig
index 49eabb0..6978da5 100644
--- a/bin/blog-processor/src/root.zig
+++ b/bin/blog-processor/src/root.zig
@@ -1,7 +1,50 @@
-// const std = @import("std");
+const std = @import("std");
 
-// const md_parser = @import("./markdown_parser.zig");
-// const html = @import("./html_formatter.zig");
+const md_parser = @import("./markdown_parser.zig");
+const html = @import("./html_formatter.zig");
+
+pub fn processBlog(alloc: std.mem.Allocator, io: std.Io, dirName: []const u8) !void {
+    const dir = try std.Io.Dir.openDirAbsolute(io, dirName, .{ .iterate = true});
+    defer dir.close(io);
+
+    var iter = dir.iterate();
+    while(try iter.next(io)) |entry|  {
+        try processFile(alloc, dir, io, entry.name);
+    }
+}
+
+fn processFile(alloc: std.mem.Allocator, dir: std.Io.Dir, io: std.Io, fileName: []const u8) !void {
+    if (!std.mem.eql(u8, ".md", std.fs.path.extension(fileName))) return;
+
+    const postContents = try std.Io.Dir.readFileAlloc(dir, io, fileName, alloc, .unlimited);
+
+    var mdDoc = try md_parser.MarkdownDoc.parse(postContents, alloc);
+    defer mdDoc.deinit(alloc);
+
+    // TODO: Customize this via command line
+    const templateFile = "templates/index.html";
+    const template = try std.Io.Dir.readFileAlloc(
+        std.Io.Dir.cwd(), io, templateFile, alloc, .unlimited);
+    var formatter = html.HtmlFormatter.init(.{ .template = template });
+    defer formatter.deinit(alloc);
+
+    const htmlOut = try formatter.format(alloc, mdDoc);
+
+    // TODO: Change to file stem
+    const baseName = std.fs.path.basename(fileName);
+    const ext = ".html";
+    const newFileName = try alloc.alloc(u8, baseName.len + ext.len);
+    defer alloc.free(newFileName);
+
+    @memcpy(newFileName.ptr, baseName);
+    @memcpy(newFileName[baseName.len..].ptr, ext);
+
+    // TODO: Put them in public directory
+    try std.Io.Dir.cwd().writeFile(io, .{ 
+        .data = htmlOut,
+        .sub_path = newFileName,
+    });
+}
 
 test "all tests" {
     _ = @import("./markdown_parser.zig");
diff --git a/posts/06-05-2026-language-checkpoint-april.md b/posts/06-05-2026-language-checkpoint-april.md
index 1796338..f52fe66 100644
--- a/posts/06-05-2026-language-checkpoint-april.md
+++ b/posts/06-05-2026-language-checkpoint-april.md
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 ---
-title: Language Checkpoint - April
-tags: language-learning
-date: 6 April 2026
+title: Language Checkpoint April
+summary: shit
 ---
 
 This is my April 2026 language checkpoint.
diff --git a/index.html b/public/index.html
similarity index 100%
rename from index.html
rename to public/index.html
diff --git a/styles.css b/public/styles.css
similarity index 100%
rename from styles.css
rename to public/styles.css
diff --git a/templates/index.html b/templates/index.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..22e7489
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+  <meta charset="UTF-8">
+  <title>Alexander Goussas</title>
+  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1">
+  <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
+  <script src=""></script>
+  <body>
+    <div class="">
+      {body}
+    </div>
+  </body>
+</html>
-- 
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