Adding support for featured conventional commits
Inspired by a random thought I had on mastodon: this site now generates a /changelog
page that is generated from the git
commit history. Aside from general statistics. it will grab the contents of commits like this one and render them as Featured Changesets during compilation. I don't know if I've ever seen anybody else talk about doing something quite like this, so I think this could be pretty interesting to explore in the future.
I'm a big fan of git blame
and other VCS-centric annotation systems. I have always tried to curate meaningful commit messages as the "ideal". So, being able to embed a microblog entry in the commit history, but still have them accessible on the web feels really nice. I also think that it might, at least for me, lower the barrier to entry to write about the changes that I make to the site, that maybe I normally wouldn't. Because while I don't have to write a blog about my work, I always make a commit.
So, we'll see where this goes… but I'm excited.