Add an about page. Move this to markdown. Move this to a pages service.

README.md

@@ -1,19 +1,3 @@
 # davesmithhayes.com
 
 This repository holds the code that deploys into the blog for Dave Smith-Hayes.
-
-## TODO
-
-This is an unorganized list of the features left for the blog.
-
-* Pages Handler
-    * Renders Markdown pages into HTML pages
-* Dynamic Navigation
-* Blog Roll
-    * List of blogs I have read and liked
-* External Links
-    * Links to my git, music, other things
-* RSS Feed
-* robots.txt
-* Site map
-* Images on posts and pages

posts/more-about-javascript.md

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: Thoughts on JavaScript
-description: |>
-    Describing the architecture of Handlers, Services, (Domains), and
-    Presentation
+description: Describing the architecture of Handlers, Services, (Domains), and Presentation
 date: 2024-08-11
 tags:
   - development
@@ -14,30 +12,11 @@ draft: true
 
 ## My History With JavaScript
 
-I think the first time I wrote JavaScript and got paid for it, I was young,
-dumb, and willing to work at a design agency for nearly minimum wage making
-WordPress templates and CakePHP applications. The team I worked with had
-adopted jQuery for all things front-end - _which was the style at the time_. I
-think this time was about 2014.
+I think the first time I wrote JavaScript and got paid for it, I was young, dumb, and willing to work at a design agency for nearly minimum wage making WordPress templates and CakePHP applications. The team I worked with had adopted jQuery for all things front-end - which was the style at the time. I think this time was about 2014.
 
-From there, I moved on to other agency jobs and finally ended up at my current
-place of employment as a lowly _PHP Developer_. This role was designed to
-solely work on a single Magento 1 codebase. Again, jQuery was the tool of
-choice. Of course the JavaScript landscape was changing rapidly with the
-introductions of Node.js, and frameworks like Angular and React. I paid no
-mind to these since the bulk of my work was still in the world of Magento 1
-and working on a plan to migrate to Magento 2.
+From there, I moved on to other Agency jobs and finally ended up at my current place of employment as a lowly _PHP Developer_. This role was designed to solely work on a single Magento 1 codebase. Again, jQuery was the tool of choice. Of course the JavaScript landscape was changing rapidly with the introductions of Node.js, and frameworks like Angular and React. I paid no mind to these since the bulk of my work was still in the world of Magento 1 and working on a plan to migrate to Magento 2.
 
-It wouldn't be until 2018 (or maybe 2019?) that I would write a line of
-JavaScript for Node.js. We had decided to go all-in on AWS Lambda. I worked on
-a service that would push order data out of our Magento instance into our
-Production Facility's database. Let's call this _The Bridge_. This Lambda was
-invoked by API Gateway. This was a very small web service, essentially. This
-was, also, my first experience with _Callback Hell_. There was no `await` and
-no real `Promise` API (except, _I think_ Bluebird, but I never knew about it
-at the time) yet. The service actually needed to do a lot of queries, and use
-those results for other queries, so on, and so forth. If you're familiar with 
-working on Callback Hell you will recognize this:
+It wouldn't be until 2018 (or maybe 2019?) that I would write a line of JavaScript for Node.js. We had decided to go all-in on AWS Lambda. I worked on a service that would push order data out of our Magento instance into our Production Facility's database. Let's call this _The Bridge_. This Lambda was invoked by API Gateway. This was a very small web service, essentially. This was, also, my first experience with _Callback Hell_. There was no `await` and no real `Promise` API (except, _I think_ Bluebird, but I never knew about it at the time) yet. The service actually needed to do a lot of queries, and use those results for other queries, so on, and so forth. If you're familiar with working on Callback Hell you will recognize this:
 
 ```javascript
 var mysql = require("mysql");
@@ -71,28 +50,15 @@ mysql.connect(config, function (err, conn) {
     });
 });
 ```
-
 _This sucks._
 
-We ended up rewriting this service in C# as that was the most popular language
-within the organization at the time. Honestly, thank god. I didn't need to
-write or maintain the service once it fell into the hands of the .NET team.
+We ended up rewriting this service in C# as that was the most popular language within the organization at the time. Honestly, thank god. I didn't need to write or maintain the service once it fell into the hands of the .NET team.
 
 ## How I Approached Big Applications
 
-Eventually all the .NET guys left the company. My boss left the company. I was
-put in charge and the first thing I did was deploy an Express.js application to
-completely rewrite the service discussed above. I did this because this was
-actually faster to do than figure out how the build system (Jenkins, Ansible,
-and TeamCity _I think_) and deploy it to our common pattern architecture. It
-was also a way for me to prove to my new boss that I can get things done and
-that moving to slowly remove our reliance on .NET and IIS for our services was
-a worthy endeavor.
+Eventually all the .NET guys left the company. My boss left the company. I was put in charge and the first thing I did was deploy an Express.js application to completely rewrite the service discussed above. I did this because this was actually faster to do than figure out how the build system (Jenkins, Ansible, and TeamCity _I think_) and deploy it to our common pattern architecture. It was also a way for me to prove to my new boss that I can get things done and that moving to slowly remove our reliance on .NET and IIS for our services was a worthy endeavor.
 
-A lot of my experience up until that point was mostly working in Magento 2,
-which is a massive, Enterprisey, PHP application. Modern PHP tends look more
-and more like C# or Java as the years go on. So that's where my mind is -
-poisoned by web MVC and Enterprise OOP (_tm_).
+A lot of my experience up until that point was mostly working in Magento 2, which is a massive, Enterprisey, PHP application. Modern PHP tends look more and more like C# or Java as the years go on. So that's where my mind is - poisoned by web MVC and Enterprise OOP (_tm_).
 
 
 

posts/scope-with-javascript.md

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ callbacks to events that will be run when that particular event is emitted.
 import EventEmitter from "node:events";
 
 const em = new EventEmitter();
-em.on("some-event", function () {
+em.on("home-event", function () {
     console.log("Something happened.");
 });
 
@@ -65,14 +65,6 @@ class SomePool extends EventEmitter {
     public getFreeConnectionCount(): number {
         return this.freeConnections;
     }
-
-    public function getConnection() {
-        this.emit("pre-connect");
-
-        if (this.freeConnections) {
-            // get a connection
-        }
-    }
 } 
 ```
 
@@ -80,37 +72,5 @@ So now, in any callback function* we can get the total number of free
 connections in the `SomePool` class.
 
 ```typescript
-const pool = new SomePool();
-pool.on("pre-connect", function () {
-    if (this.freeConnections) {
-        this.freeConnection = this.freeConnection - 1;
-    }
-});
+title=
 ```
-
-This is a really impractical use of `EventEmitter`, but I think it does a good
-job at illustrating the scope of the callback function on the `on` method and
-how it can alter the state of the `SomePool` class. There is definitely a case
-for when this can be super helpful and useful.
-
-## The Arrow Function
-
-One of the big things in JavaScript is to use this nifty little short-hand to
-create a function:
-
-```typescript
-[1, 2, 3].map((i) => i + 1);
-```
-
-This is super useful to keeping code clean and concise - but there is a huge
-caveat using the arrow function over the classic function definition. When you
-do an arrow function, you are not inheriting the scope of the object you are
-attaching the callback to.
-
-So in the example above, the object is the Array object, implicitly
-instantiated, and having its method `map` called (which iterates over each of
-the items in an Array, and does something, in this case, adding 1 to it).
-
-
-
-

posts/the-basics-of-web-dev.md

@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
----
-title: The Absolute Basics on Web Development 
-description: A post en which I talk about the basics of web development.
-date: 2024-11-18
-tags:
-  - development
-  - html
-  - css
-  - javascript
-slug: the-basics-of-web-development
-draft: true
----
-
-## The Server & Client
-
-At the time of this posting, I have already conducted a workshop at a Hackathon
-for High School students in my city. My workshop took the kids from nothing to
-a very basic HTML document published on to the internet. I ended up using
-Github Codespaces, and Github Pages to get them from 0 to Web Page with the
-least amount of friction. Those technologies aside, this whole endeaver
-inspired me to write down what I think are the absolute basics, as I understand
-them from my own experience as a professional web developer.
-
-The first thing to truly understand is the relationsihp between a Server and
-the Client. The Server is a piece of software that reacts to requests from a
-Client. The Client is you - probably using a web browser like Firefox or
-Chrome.
-
-I think its important to talk about TCP/IP, the packet, and the structure of
-the Request and Response data.
-
-## The Document
-
-The best way to conceptualize what a web page is, is to look at what it
-actually is - a document. The Document is made up of a special Markup language
-called Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML). This is a form of Hypermedia - a
-concept we don't have to fully invest in yet.
-
-HTML describes structure and classification of data. There are three main
-parts of an HTML document:
-
-1. The Document Type
-2. The Header
-3. The Body
-
-The Document Type simply states "Hey, this document is of this format." We wont
-go into the history of the HTML Document Type tag since once HTML was
-standardized we perfected the notion of how to declare a document type.
-
-If you're curious about the history of this line and what it used to look like,
-feel free to look at [the Wikipedia article on the subject](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_type_declaration).
-
-The Header is _meta data about the document_. This is where things like the
-Title of the document is declared, where character set in the document is
-defined, and other things like injecting remote files like stylesheets and
-JavaScript.
-
-The Body is where the content for the document actually lives. This is where we
-will write a majority of our HTML and present the information we want to share
-with the world.
-
-Let's take a look at the document we are going to craft. By the end of this
-blog, if you wish to follow along, you will have a very basic understanding of
-how the web works.
-
-```html
-<!DOCTYPE html>
-<html lang="en">
-    <head>
-        <title>A simple web page.</title>
-    </head>
-    <body>
-        <!-- This is a comment, this is not rendered to the page. -->
-        <h1>Level 1 Header</h1>
-        <p>This is a paragraph that will live on the page.</p>
-        <p>This paragraph has a <a href="https://tildes.net">Link to Tildes</a> on it!</p>
-    </body>
-</html>
-```
-
-## The Stylesheet
-
-Styling HTML is usually done through a language called Cascading Style Sheets.
-This language allows you to define things like font families, sizes, colours,
-and even placement on the document itself. CSS has gone through a huge
-evolution since I first learned it in 2004(ish). While I am no designer (that's
-my wife), I have learned some really basic skills over the years that allow me
-to get a basic, legible, site styled. Case and point: this blog.
-
-## Interactivity
-
-The only real way to add interactivity to an HTML document these days is to add
-some JavaScript. JavaScript is a temultuous topic in and of itself but I think
-understanding the basics, especially within the context of a Web Browser and
-on an HTML document, can help you appreciate what a little of client-side code
-can do to improve the experience of reading some documents.

src/handlers/about.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import { Hono, Context } from 'hono';
+
+const aboutPage = new Hono();
+
+export async handleAboutPage(c: Context) {
+  const meta: SiteMeta = {
+    title: "About",
+    description: "About Dave Smith-Hayes - a dad, developer, musician.",
+    author: "Dave Smith-Hayes"
+  };
+
+  c.render(<AboutPage />, { meta });
+}
+
+aboutPage.get("/about", handleAboutPage);
+export default aboutPage;

src/templates/Page.tsx

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { Style } from 'hono/css';
 import { SiteMeta } from '@blog/models/SiteMeta';
 import { MetaTags } from '@blog/templates/components/MetaTags';
+import { Navigation } from '@blog/templates/componennts/Navigation';
 
 function getPageTitle(title: string|undefined): string {
   if (!title) {
@@ -25,6 +26,9 @@ export function Page({ children, meta }: { children: any, meta: SiteMeta }) {
             <a href="/">davesmithhayes.com</a>
           </div>
         </header>
+        <nav>
+          <Navigation />
+        </nav>
         <main>
           {children}
         </main>

src/templates/Pages/AboutPage.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+export function AboutPage() {
+  return (
+    <div class="main">
+      <p>Hello! I am Dave Smith-Hayes.</p>
+    </div>
+  );
+}

src/templates/components/Navigation.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+const pages: Array<{ path: string, title: string }> = [
+  { path: "/", title: "Home" },
+  { path: "/about", title: "About" },
+];
+
+export function Navigation() {
+  return (
+    <ul>
+      {pages.map(p => <li><a href={p.path}>{p.title}</a></li> )}
+    </ul>
+  );
+}