host.sh: automatically open the page

host.sh

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-python3 -m http.server --directory ./html/
+python3 -m http.server --directory ./html/ & xdg-open http://0.0.0.0:8000/

new-article.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set +e
+
+printf "%s" "Enter title: "
+read title
+
+printf "%s" "Enter directory name: "
+read directory
+
+if [ -d "./articles/$directory/" ]; then
+    echo "Directory already exists, aborted."
+    exit
+fi
+
+printf "%s" "Enter brief: "
+read brief
+
+printf "%s" "Enter tags: "
+read tags
+
+mkdir "./articles/$directory/"
+
+mask=$(cat <<-format
+Title:  %s
+Brief:  %s
+Date:   %s
+Tags:   %s
+CSS:    /style.css
+
+format
+)
+date=$(date +%s)
+
+printf "$mask" "$title" "$brief" "$date" "$tags" \
+    > "./articles/$directory/page.mmd"
+
+if which xdg-open &> /dev/null; then
+    xdg-open "./articles/$directory/page.mmd"
+fi

tools/article_utils.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import time, subprocess
 
 def the_line_after_metadata(lines: []) -> int:
     i = 0
-    while lines[i].strip():
+    while i < len(lines) and lines[i].strip():
         i += 1
     return i
 
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ def parse_metadata(filepath: str) -> {}:
             result["Date"] = time.gmtime(int(val))
         elif key == "Tags":
             result["Tags"] = [v.strip() for v in val.split(",")]
-        else:
+        elif val:
             result[key] = val
         result["Last Edit"] = time.gmtime(int(subprocess.getoutput(r"stat -c %Y " + filepath)))