That Randy Brown

Making with Make

I decided that timestamps as markdown files made the most sense for now, mostly because I didn't want to have to think of names for things, and a timestamp is a great replacement for a name, because I can never go wrong dating things. So for a while, I was running touch content/blog/$(date +%S).md in the terminal.

I'm dreadful about losing commands though, and make is probably the easiest way to build a command line interface, so I added a makefile for common commands I use. In this case, it only has one:

.PHONY: post

post:
	touch content/blog/$(shell date +%s).md

Now make post will do the same thing for me as it always was. The other thing this does for me is allow me to forget that command forever because make post is what I really want to do.