From aba4071718cf08735abff762aa9bfe978d347191 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Estes Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:44:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add welcome course, finish template substitution for west575 --- .gitea/workflows/sync.yml | 6 +++--- README.md | 25 +++++++++++-------------- courses/welcome/course.yml | 15 +++++++++++++++ courses/welcome/day-0.md | 13 +++++++++++++ courses/welcome/day-1.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ courses/welcome/day-2.md | 11 +++++++++++ 6 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) create mode 100644 courses/welcome/course.yml create mode 100644 courses/welcome/day-0.md create mode 100644 courses/welcome/day-1.md create mode 100644 courses/welcome/day-2.md diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/sync.yml b/.gitea/workflows/sync.yml index 57e8f73..443e9f8 100644 --- a/.gitea/workflows/sync.yml +++ b/.gitea/workflows/sync.yml @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ jobs: run: | tar czf /tmp/courses.tar.gz courses status=$(curl -s -o /tmp/sync-response.json -w '%{http_code}' \ - -X POST "http://eec-__CLIENT__:8080/admin/sync" \ - -H "Authorization: Bearer ${__CLIENT___EEC_SYNC_TOKEN}" \ + -X POST "http://eec-west575:8080/admin/sync" \ + -H "Authorization: Bearer ${WEST575_EEC_SYNC_TOKEN}" \ --data-binary @/tmp/courses.tar.gz) cat /tmp/sync-response.json echo @@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ jobs: exit 1 fi env: - __CLIENT___EEC_SYNC_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.__CLIENT___EEC_SYNC_TOKEN }} + WEST575_EEC_SYNC_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.WEST575_EEC_SYNC_TOKEN }} diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a2f1d51..7466bdd 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -# __CLIENT__-eec-courses +# west575-eec-courses Course content for [eec](https://gitea.reground.org/will/eec), the self-paced -email course engine — this instance served at eec.__DOMAIN__. Push to +email course engine — this instance served at eec.west575.org. Push to `master` and CI syncs `courses/` straight to production — there's no staging step, so treat a push here the same as a push to `eec` itself. @@ -21,19 +21,16 @@ courses/ ... ``` +## Courses + +| slug | how people get in | +|---|---| +| `welcome` | entered automatically on newsletter signup (`SUBSCRIBE_ENROLL_COURSE_SLUG` on the `eec-west575` deployment) — never linked publicly on its own | + ## Deploying Push to `master` → `.gitea/workflows/sync.yml` tars up `courses/` and -`POST`s it to this domain's `eec-__CLIENT__` container over the internal -Docker network, authenticated with `__CLIENT___EEC_SYNC_TOKEN` (a Gitea -Actions secret shared with the `eec-__CLIENT__` Ansible role's copy). No +`POST`s it to this domain's `eec-west575` container over the internal +Docker network, authenticated with `WEST575_EEC_SYNC_TOKEN` (a Gitea +Actions secret shared with the `eec-west575` Ansible role's copy). No separate deploy step, no staging — a push here goes live immediately. - ---- - -**Generating a new client repo from this template:** - -1. Gitea → "Generate Repo" from this template repo's page, named `-eec-courses`. -2. Find/replace `__CLIENT__` → the client's slug (must match the `eec-` container name) and `__DOMAIN__` → the client's domain, in this README and in `.gitea/workflows/sync.yml`. -3. Add the `_EEC_SYNC_TOKEN` Actions secret to the new repo (Gitea does not carry secrets over from a template) — value must match the `eec-` Ansible role's copy. -4. Delete this "Generating a new client repo" section from the new repo's README once done. diff --git a/courses/welcome/course.yml b/courses/welcome/course.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7e4499d --- /dev/null +++ b/courses/welcome/course.yml @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +active: true +slug: welcome +name: "Going West — welcome" +from_email: hello@west575.org +ceiling_hours: 72 + +# Entered only via SUBSCRIBE_ENROLL_COURSE_SLUG on the eec-west575 +# deployment (see reground-infrastructure's eec-west575 role) — never +# linked publicly on its own. Every newsletter signup on west575.org +# lands here automatically the moment they join the list. + +steps: + - file: day-0.md + - file: day-1.md + - file: day-2.md diff --git a/courses/welcome/day-0.md b/courses/welcome/day-0.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7ed8b3a --- /dev/null +++ b/courses/welcome/day-0.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +subject: "Hi — you're on the list" +--- + +Hi, I'm Will. + +Thanks for subscribing to **Going West**. This isn't a newsletter with a theme — it's just where I write down what I'm actually working on and thinking about, in roughly the order it happens: infrastructure and small-business tooling, a short story or a submission log, whatever else seemed worth saying at the time. + +No content calendar, no funnel, no "in this issue" formula. When I publish something worth your inbox, you'll hear about it. That's the whole deal. + +I'll send a couple more short notes over the next few days — mostly so this doesn't feel like a black box you signed up for and forgot. After that, it's just posts as they happen. + +— Will diff --git a/courses/welcome/day-1.md b/courses/welcome/day-1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cf46708 --- /dev/null +++ b/courses/welcome/day-1.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +subject: "What actually ends up here" +redirect_url: "https://west575.org/posts/" +--- + +A quick note on what to expect, since "I write about whatever" is a little unhelpful on its own. + +In practice it lands in a few overlapping piles: the infrastructure and ops work I do for a living (the unglamorous, mostly-invisible plumbing that keeps small businesses' sites and email actually running), fiction I'm working on or sending out, and the occasional post that's really about neither — just something I noticed or worked through. + +I'm Catholic, and that shows up here the way it shows up in the rest of my life — as a lens I'm looking through, not a label on the content. You won't find a separate "faith" section. If it's relevant to what I'm writing about, it's in there; if it's not, it isn't. + +If you want to see what that actually looks like in practice rather than in the abstract, here's what's up on the site right now: + +[Read the latest]({{.AdvanceLink}}) + +— Will diff --git a/courses/welcome/day-2.md b/courses/welcome/day-2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..07393d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/courses/welcome/day-2.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- +subject: "That's it for the intro" +--- + +Last one of these — from here it's just posts as I write them, nothing scheduled or padded out to fill a sequence. + +If something ever lands in your inbox and you want to argue with it, ask about it, or just say hi, reply to this email. I read everything that comes back, and I'd rather hear from an actual person than watch an open rate. + +Thanks for being here. + +— Will