integrated projects page in index, writing

astro-website/src/components/ProjectPreview.astro

@@ -1,20 +1,17 @@
 ---
 export interface Props {
-	post: any;
+	slug: any;
+  text: any;
 }
 
-const { post } = Astro.props;
+const { slug, text } = Astro.props;
 
-let href = "/";
-if(post.frontmatter.source)
-	href = post.frontmatter.source
-else if(post.frontmatter.demo)
-	href = post.frontmatter.demo + "/"
+let href = "/projects/#" + slug;
 
 ---
 
 <a href={href} class="post" >
-	<h3>{post.frontmatter.title}</h3>
+	<h3>{text}</h3>
   <div>
 	github
   </div>

astro-website/src/pages/about.mdx

@@ -7,17 +7,19 @@ permalink: https://halb.it/about/
 activePage: about
 ---
 
-Hi, I'm Alberto Ventafridda.<br/>
-I'm a software developer based in Milan, Italy.
-I aspire to be a "jack of all trades, master of at least one",
-however impossible this may sound.<br/>
- So far, my journey has covered web development in all of its forms,
-cloud infrastructure, and cybersecurity.
-
-On this website I write about the challenges I encounter along the road,
-and whatever I feel interesting to share.
-I like the idea that the content I publish will help someone in the future,
-however, right now it’s mostly written for myself.
+I'm a developer and Computer Science student at UniMib, living in Milan, Italy.
+
+In a distant future I aspire to be a jack of all trades, master of one.<br/>
+In my search for the one trade to master
+I've experimented with web development in all of its forms - from frontend to backend, from design
+to devops pipelines.<br/>
+In 2023, I spent a year working as an infrastructure and backend developer in a consulting firm,
+where I developed Cloud Infrastructure for large-scale web and AI projects.
+
+Right now I'm focusing on completing my studies, 
+practicing the art of binary exploitation and 
+playing CTF competitions in my free time.
+
 
 ## About this blog
 

astro-website/src/pages/index.astro

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ let permalink = 'https://halb.it';
 
 // Data Fetching: List all Markdown posts in the repo.
 let MAX_POSTS = 10
+let MAX_PROJECTS = 6
 let sortedPosts = await Astro.glob('./posts/*.{md,mdx}')
 sortedPosts = sortedPosts
     .sort((a, b) => new Date(b.frontmatter.publishDate).valueOf() - new Date(a.frontmatter.publishDate).valueOf())
@@ -25,9 +26,10 @@ let posts = sortedPosts.map(p => ({
   shortDate: new Date(p.frontmatter.publishDate).getFullYear() != currentYear
 }))
 
-//TODO: fetch only the last 10 projects
-let allProjects = await Astro.glob('./projects/*.md');
-allProjects = allProjects.sort((a, b) => new Date(a.frontmatter.order).valueOf() - new Date(b.frontmatter.order).valueOf());
+let projectsPage = await Astro.glob('./projects.mdx')
+let allProjects = projectsPage[0].getHeadings()
+let projects = allProjects.slice(0, MAX_PROJECTS)
+
 ---
 <SharedLayout {description} {permalink} >
 	<article>
@@ -64,7 +66,7 @@ allProjects = allProjects.sort((a, b) => new Date(a.frontmatter.order).valueOf()
 			<span>Latest projects</span>
 			<a href="/projects/">View All <span class="visually-hidden">projects</span></a>
 		</h2>
-		{allProjects.map((p) => <ProjectPreview post={p} />)}
+		{projects.map((p) => <ProjectPreview slug={p.slug} text={p.text} />)}
 	</section>
 </article>
 <footer>

astro-website/src/pages/projects.mdx

@@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ activePage: projects
 import Picture from '../components/Picture.astro'
 import PictureThemed from '../components/PictureThemed.astro'
 
+- [custom vm emulator and debugger](#custom-vm-emulator-and-debugger)
+- [Morse code web radio](#morse-code-web-radio)
+- [Infrastructure](#infrastructure)
+- [Students management system](#students-management-system)
+- [Parsers in exotic languages](#parsers-in-exotic-languages)
+- [Sailing regattas Android app](#sailing-regattas-android-app)
+- [Older projects](#older-projects)
 
 ### Custom VM emulator and debugger
 
@@ -33,26 +40,6 @@ At the moment i'm still following the course, and practicing binary exploitation
 All my experiences on this subject are documented [in these articles](/articles/#pwn)
 
 
-### This website
-
-I created this website in 2022, after years of procrastination. I wanted a place to host CTF writeups, plus I wanted an excuse
-to practice technical writing in english.
-
-The website is built with Astro, a technology that at the time was still in beta.
-Coming from a React background, I was seriously accustomed to the jsx syntax, and I was looking for a framework
-that allowed me to write everything in markdown+jsx, and compiled to static html+css files.
-
-Astro does exactly that, and additionally allows you to add interactive components in your articles,
-written in wathever web framework you prefer.
-If you've ever read an [article by Ciechanowski](https://ciechanow.ski/color-spaces/), You may have an
-idea of the potential of this feature.
-
-So far, I've experimented with interactive elements written in Svelte in an article about
-[visualizing data](/posts/moving-data-x64/) in x86-64 assembly.<br/>
-I'm documenting everything related to this website [in these articles](/articles/this-website), and the code
-is open source on [github](https://github.com/robalb/my-website)
-
-
 ### Morse code web radio
 
 This is an old project I started in 2018, during my first years of highschool.<br/>
@@ -77,7 +64,7 @@ and I wanted maximum complexity as the main requirement just for an extra challe
 ### Infrastructure
 
 Between 2021 and 2022 I realized I was lacking knowledge in infrastructure and devops processes,
-so i took the decision to containerize all my projects, adding CI/CD pipelines based on github actions.
+so I took the decision to containerize all my projects, adding CI/CD pipelines based on github actions.
 
 I also took the cursed decision to move everything on a self-managed, single-node k3s cluster, running on
 an OVH vps provisioned via ansible scripts.
@@ -198,11 +185,13 @@ Both the app code and the API server are available on the [open-roboe github org
 
 ### Older projects
 
-Many projects did not survive the test of times.
-
-Around 2016, I learned programming by developing [minecraft pocket edition mods](https://web.archive.org/web/20190301083244/mcpedl.com/?s=robalb)
-In a cursed javascript+java scripting language.
+Around 2015, I learned programming by developing [minecraft pocket edition mods](https://web.archive.org/web/20190301083244/mcpedl.com/?s=robalb)
+using a cursed javascript+java scripting language.
 
+Since then, I've created several web projects that got lost in time,
+along with miscellaneous stuff that is not worth its own section such 
+as a website for [my old high school](https://github.com/liceobanfi/banfi-in-diretta) or
+[my dotfiles](https://github.com/robalb/dotfiles)