Commit 1709cb7 deleted the pinned hello-world post and ten tests
silently rotted with it - invisible until now because the suite could
not run in this clone (incomplete deps, then the broken frontmatter).
The slug, banner, og-meta and tag tests now derive slug and title from
the compiled posts at runtime (newest live post, newest draft), matching
the existing latest_post_with_links pattern, so content churn no longer
breaks them.
External links in post bodies already opened in a new tab and showed an
icon, but the icon is invisible to screen readers, so nothing announced
that the link leaves the site.
- blogex: ExternalLinks.rewrite/1 appends
<span class="blogex-external-hint"> (opens in a new tab)</span> as the
last child of every external anchor. No aria-label, so the accessible
name still contains the visible link text (WCAG 2.5.3); the icon colour
and 2.5.3 both hold. Idempotent: a second pass adds no second hint.
- blogex: anchors are now matched together with their closing tag
(the hint goes inside), so a stray unclosed <a> is left alone.
- app: sr-only rule for .blogex-external-hint in .blogex-post-body. The
split stays as before: blogex marks up, the host app styles.
- tests: hint cases in blogex (appended, per link, after inner markup,
idempotent, not on internal/mailto/anchor links) + anchors without href
(Blogex.ExternalLinks now at 100% line coverage), and an app test that
the hint reaches the rendered post page. Two exact-string expectations
updated for the intended markup change.
make test: app 179, blogex 162. make verify: green.
External links in post bodies now open in a new tab and show a
box-with-arrow marker icon, so readers can tell at a glance which
links leave the site.
- blogex: new Blogex.ExternalLinks.rewrite/1 marks up anchors with
http(s) hrefs at compile time with target="_blank", rel="noopener"
and class="blogex-external" (idempotent, merges into existing
class/rel values, leaves relative, mailto: and #anchor links alone)
- blogex: Post.build/3 applies the rewrite, so every blog gets it
- app: CSS in .blogex-post-body draws the marker via a mask so it
inherits the link colour; empty ::after content stays invisible
to screen readers
- make test now also runs the blogex suite; it is currently red
with 3 pre-existing blog_integration_test failures caused by the
vacuous link validator (parked yak
link-validator-never-sees-compiled-html-...)
- Add conditional "Dashboard" link in navbar that shows when a user is logged in
- Tests verify the link is hidden for unauthenticated users and visible when authenticated
- Investigation reports for Q1 (drafts/scheduled), Q2 (RSS), Q3 (email subs)
also added go to install showboat and rodney for the next steps.
microprints work in qwan tracker, but not in firehose. some of the
rendering is in the project, maybe the library should provide sample
webpages.
Manually refactor multi-line conn = post/put(conn, ...) patterns
across user_session, user_settings, and user_registration controller
tests. Rename shadowed conn to response using pipeline operator.
Also add plans/multi-line-conn-refactoring.md spec for future
Elixir-based tooling to handle these patterns automatically.
phx.gen.auth sets current_scope, not current_user. Use !! to
ensure boolean for HEEx template and register_and_log_in_user
in tests for proper auth session.
- LiveView-based email/password auth via mix phx.gen.auth
- Auth links removed from public navigation (direct URL access only)
- Accounts context with User schema and token management
1. Rename goto_engineering_post_page/2 to visit_engineering_path/2 for
better accuracy (used for both post pages and tag pages)
2. Simplify Makefile test target by removing explicit ecto.create and
ecto.migrate commands (mix test handles migrations automatically)
3. Update blog_test.exs header comment to reflect actual changes made
4. Move Sandbox alias to top level in data_case.ex
- Add Accept: application/json headers to all API endpoint tests
- Add GET /blog/releases/tag/:tag HTML page test
- Add GET /api/blog/*/tag/:tag JSON API tests for both blogs
- Fix feed.xml assertions to check body first, then content type
Ran a claude /security-review, fixed two vulnerabilities
Use a plug to resolve blog_id, returning a clean 404 for unknown blogs
instead of raising with inspect(). Parse page param with Integer.parse
so invalid values (non-numeric, negative, zero) fall back to page 1
instead of crashing. Add 5 tests covering these cases.a
Goal: have a personal blog, and try out another point in the 'modular
app design with elixir' space.
Designing OTP systems with elixir had some interesting ideas.
Firehose Bot
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