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Activity Log - 2025-09-11

Activity Log - 2025-09-11

  • Github submodules implementation for personal site

    • Tags: content management, implementation
    • Intent: group all my writing in a single repo, including the articles published on my personal site
    • Issues and learnings:
      • Submodule pointers mechanics:
        • When the content in the submodule repo is updated (commit + push), the pointer from the repo pointing remains on the same commit.
        • To point towards the last commit, the pointer needs to be updated, commited and pushed
      • At first I wanted a fully automated publication meachnism: “new content pushed => automatic rebuild”
        • This implied running 2 Github Actions sequentially: 1- the submodule auto update, 2- the Astro rebuild
        • GITHUB_TOKEN don’t allow for that. It requires a PAT (Personal Access Token) approach.
        • After trying I changed course to have a manual deployment process for now.
      • Exclusion patterns to exclude files that are not .md or are not articles to be processed by Astro

  • Track actions and decisions using a devlog.md

    • Tags: personal operating system
    • Intent: keep track of the development trajectory that can be hard to extract from Github commits.
    • Problem to solve:
      • I started with a plan.md capturing the “grand scheme”, but did not want to pollute it with fine-grained consideration.
      • I ended up starting another file tracking progress, what was tested, what failed and why, and the successive decisions.
      • This file ended up capturing both the plan and the logs.
    • Creating a separate log file so that I can see if plans and logs can be kept separate or if I need to move towards another organization

  • Create a /daily command to track daily activity

    • Tags: personal operating system
    • Intent: automatically create a publishable summary of my activity / learnings on a daily basis
    • Approach:
      • Started with the analysis of the git history for the given day (other types of activities could be captured and added later)
      • Used a mix of prompting and bash commands to make the execution of certain parts more deterministic (such as the retrieval of commits) and hopefully faster (less thinking)