Sync mechanism of the blog

In my previous attempts at creating blog pages, I tried git based solutions. But it was too much of a hassle to push everytime I needed to rephrase something.

At the same time I wanted a way to host my Obsidian notes somewhere. So I settled with rsync based approach.

Here's the overview.

flowchart LR
    A["Blog source"] --> B["Mirror (`personal/content/blog`)"]
    C["Notes source"] --> D["Mirror (`personal/content/notes`)"]
    B --> E["SvelteKit site reads content"]
    D --> E
    B -. "if remote configured" .-> F["Remote (`SYNC_REMOTE_BASE/blog`)"]
    D -. "if remote configured" .-> G["Remote (`SYNC_REMOTE_BASE/notes`)"]
    H["Watch mode (`--watch`)"] --> A
    H --> C

To make it smoother on my end, I registered the file watcher as a MacOS service that starts in the background.

This way, whenever I make a change to my blog or to my Obsidian notes, they'll be reflected here immediately.

MacOS service definition

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Label</key>
	<string>com.zet.hmzdotcom.syncwatch</string>

	<key>ProgramArguments</key>
	<array>
		<string>/Users/zet/.bun/bin/bun</string>
		<string>run</string>
		<string>sync:watch</string>
	</array>

	<key>WorkingDirectory</key>
	<string>/Users/zet/dev/html/hmzdotcom</string>

	<key>RunAtLoad</key>
	<true/>

	<key>KeepAlive</key>
	<true/>

	<key>ThrottleInterval</key>
	<integer>10</integer>

	<key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
	<dict>
		<key>HOME</key>
		<string>/Users/zet</string>
		<key>PATH</key>
		<string>/Users/zet/.bun/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin</string>
	</dict>

	<key>StandardOutPath</key>
	<string>/Users/zet/Library/Logs/hmzdotcom-syncwatch.out.log</string>

	<key>StandardErrorPath</key>
	<string>/Users/zet/Library/Logs/hmzdotcom-syncwatch.err.log</string>
</dict>
</plist>