Are people even using something else than YAML front matter in their Markdown (or whatever) files?
Apparently there are SSGs that support HTML <meta> tag front matter, and if you're using ReStructured Text it probably does its own thing. And I bet there's at least one person on the planet building their website from ASN.1 files.
What are _you_ using?
Aaaand there you go: My first very own Python package on PyPI.
https://pypi.org/project/felloff/
felloff is a CLI tool to extract, edit (non-interactively, i.e. via command line switches), or remove YAML front matter in text files.
Now also supports editing existing files in place (instead of just printing the changed version to stdout).
Also, if you installed the 0.1.0 version please upgrade to 0.1.1, there's been a silly bug that broke reading from stdin … 
If you'd like to test drive my YAML front matter CLI tool, you can now install it from Git using uv or pip(x). There's also a readme now that shows you what it can do and teaches you how to use it.
https://codeberg.org/scy/felloff
Let me know what you think and if you encounter any bugs!
me: manually editing YAML front matter sucks
also me: *spends a day writing a CLI tool for common tasks*
(Not released yet, I have a few small features I'd like to implement first.)
Edit: It's now available for testing via Git:
Have you validated your 
#RSS feed? https://www.rssboard.org/rss-validator/
I just did and realised there were lots of intraoperability suggestions on one of my blogs running #Hugo and it was actually not even valid because I had a missing trailing slash on my baseURL!
But I managed to sqash the errors (e.g. using absolute permalinks instead of relPermalinks and ensuring the date in the #frontmatter was in the right format).
PS. Thanks @joel for inadvertently making me aware of the situation!
Y’ALL!
i need #YAML #Obisidan #Frontmatter help
y’all know how you can add filters to frontmatter variables?
https://help.obsidian.md/web-clipper/filters
how do i do this?
1. TAKE A TITLE
"Ohai This Is A Title: Made a long ass mess with all this text"
2. USE THE COLON AS DELIMITER
title: "Ohai This Is A Title"
subtitle: "Made a long ass mess with all this text"
3. SO I CAN TEMPLATE IT AS
title: {{title|replace: ? : " " }}
subtitle: {{title|replace: ? : " " }}
alias: {{title}}
I am looking for a sane/simple setup for "templating" in #Obsidian #markdown. I am not interested in javascript or whatever some tutorials are recommending. Just want to prefill #frontmatter with stuff like note title as tags... it can't be that complicated?
Tell GitHub to Render Markdown Pages with .gitattributes
Articles on Hearthside are written in #Markdown (#GitHub-flavored), but the file extension is .md.yaml as they also make use of Jekyll-style front matter. My #Frontmatter gem requires that files it handles end in .yaml or .yml, so this is necessary.
#Meta #NaBloPoMo2024
https://calebhearth.com/m/github-linguist
Завершил ещё один небольшой open source-проект: Preambula — обработчик Markdown-файлов, позволяющий преобразовывать их на лету в HTML, вставлять в заданный шаблон, добавлять или автоматически генерировать основные meta-теги и отображать как обычную Web-страницу. Использовал чистый PHP без всяких frameworks, поэтому работает быстро и с минимальным потреблением памяти.
Скачать можно тут: https://preambula.4xpro.ru
GitHub-репозиторий — https://github.com/XXXXPro/Preambula
Изначально думал, что напишу за два-три дня (и базовую рабочую версию за это время и сделал, причём один день ушёл на выбор Markdown-парсера), но потом всякие мелкие доделки и написание документации заняли ещё две недели.
#markdown #frontmatter #opensource #open_source
I'm still not out of the rabbit hole of searching for an #OpenSource #PersonalKnowledgeManagement software. 
I'm gonna give a second try to @zettlr tomorrow! Their docs are *surprisingly* user-friendly and they claim to stick to the pure #CommonMark where probable. It's all the while being nice to researchers with citing, inline usage of #TeXLaTeX, #MermaidJS, and pop-over #footnotes. Provision of the simple #PDF export and #Pandoc customization are welcome, too!
But, to be fair, I may be overexaggerating how good #Zettlr is because of my recent disgust with #VendorLocking. In fact, almost anything that closely follows the common spec and is #FreeSoftware might suffice already. Having something as advanced and closer to the roots is certainly refreshing!
@mfru I can't wait to try out the extensions, but I'm going to take it slow (at least I'll try!) - I'll keep this on a back burner though. Although I have a lot of things integrated into vscode like #Frontmatter and #Platform.io, I can definitely see a future when simplicity will be better for certain projects. Unless there's anything in #emacs that could cater for #microcontroller programming or static site generation? I mean it's emacs, I'm sure there is 
Using the Python "frontmatter" module, how can I output an empty list?
When I set the value to:
fm["field"] = []
Then the output does not include "field" at all. However I need the actual empty list in the output.
Any ideas? Thanks!
Now that #Obsidian does proper support to links in frontmatter, I was finally motivated to replace the inline properties and add them to #frontmatter
#Obsidian Пробы плагинов
Плагин Projects показывает заметки в виде таблицы, используя метаданные #frontmatter. Ну, такое мне не особо надо, ведь я создаю хранилище в виде текстовой сети, т.е. гипертекста. Таблицы тут нафик не упёрлись. Удалил.
Плагин Timelines тоже использует метаданные, но мне не удалось его запустить. Указал все теги, все блоки - но нифига. К тому же он два года как заброшен, нафик такое. Удалил.
А таймлайн мне нужен, буду искать.
An exciting discovery this morning. I installed VSCodium on a whim as it is the FOSS variant of VS Code. Why devs would use an IDE from MS is beyond me. While fiddling with the extensions available I found Front Matter.
Holy sh*t!
It is a CMS for your SSG of choice that gives you a dashboard view of the content you are building and also lets you preview while editing. ‘
<mind blown>
