The current era of Tenrankai turned the “blog engine from day 3” into a first-class publishing system — and you’re looking at the result, because this site runs it.
The posts revamp
Posts gained categories (chips on the cards, path-style URLs like
/projects/category/astrophotography, filter bars with counts, per-category
options via _categories.md) and hero images — either a plain URL or a
gallery:name:path reference that pulls straight from a gallery, with
click-through to the image and hover details. The index became a flowing
magazine layout with a featured first card and reading times. Post detail
pages got a share bar (native share, Bluesky, Mastodon with a remembered
instance, and friends) and richer Open Graph metadata.
Editing moved into the browser: a permission-gated post editor (title,
slug, summary, categories, markdown, delete) backed by a CRUD API, with a
gallery image picker for choosing heroes. Posts share the gallery permission
scheme — site permissions plus per-directory _folder.md overrides — so
private drafts and members-only sections fall out for free.
RSS 2.0 feeds appeared at {prefix}/feed.xml (and per category), with
permission-aware filtering and full content. Posts systems can also embed
anywhere a template renders — an embeddable posts preview block for
dropping “recent projects” onto a home page.
The sky map
My favorite recent addition: image detail pages for astrophotos now show a
sky map. If an image’s metadata sidecar carries ra and dec — the
same fields I was already writing for the astro gallery — the viewer plots
where in the sky the image was taken.
Flat files in, planetarium out. Next on the design docs: plate solving and object overlays.
The series: Part 1 — the ten-day birth, Part 2 — the January push, Part 3 — boring on purpose. Source at github.com/theatrus/tenrankai.