What is GAML?
GAML is a tool I made for myself which allows me to parse edits made to a file in git as content to be displayed on a blog post.
It allows me to display a new section in a blog post which shows all the edits made to the post, including the author, timestamp, and message. I find this really useful as both a reader and an author.
edits example in playing with gleam
I organically go in and edit posts, and I found it tedious to manually keep track of that, especially since git is already tracking that information. So I made GAML to automate that process.
It basically just parses the git history into yaml that's appended to the frontmatter of the post, it looks like this:
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Check out the in the labs directory here