Add Content

Add Content to Gas City Hall

Add new Medium and Sells Brothers posts to the site by updating site.config.json and downloading blog images.

Workflow

1. Identify New Content

Compare the latest posts on https://steve-yegge.medium.com/, plus local captures in docs-fodder/sellsbrothers-posts/*.md, against existing entries in site.config.json blogPosts.

Posts already present in site.config.json do not need to be added again.

2. Extract Metadata

For each missing Medium post, collect:

• Title: Use the Medium post title exactly.
• Date: Use the published date from Medium. If Medium only shows a relative date such as 1 day ago, resolve it against the current date before writing site.config.json.
• URL: Use the canonical https://steve-yegge.medium.com/... post URL.
• Description: Use the Medium listing snippet or the first substantive paragraph. Keep it to one or two sentences.
• Lead image URL: Use the post thumbnail or hero image from Medium's listing page.

If a clean Markdown file is available from the user-scope medium-to-markdown skill, prefer it over scraping/listing metadata:

python ~/.claude/skills/medium-to-markdown/scripts/medium_to_markdown.py \
  "https://steve-yegge.medium.com/post-slug-id" \
  --frontmatter \
  -o /tmp/medium-post.md

For medium-to-markdown --frontmatter files:

• Title: YAML title
• Date: YAML date (YYYY-MM-DD), converted to Mon D, YYYY
• URL: YAML source
• Description: First substantive paragraph after the frontmatter, skipping headings, images, and blank lines
• Lead image URL: First ![...](<url>) image in the post body

For Sells Brothers posts, generate a local RSS-derived capture first:

python ~/.claude/skills/sellsbrothers-to-markdown/scripts/sellsbrothers_to_markdown.py \
  "https://sellsbrothers.com/post-slug" \
  --frontmatter \
  -o "docs-fodder/sellsbrothers-posts/Post Title.md"

For sellsbrothers-to-markdown --frontmatter files:

• Title: YAML title
• Date: YAML date (YYYY-MM-DD), converted to Mon D, YYYY
• URL: YAML source
• Description: First substantive paragraph after the frontmatter, skipping headings, images, and blank lines
• Lead image URL: First ![...](<url>) image in the post body

3. Update site.config.json

Add new entries to the blogPosts array and keep them in newest-first order.

Each entry should look like:

{
  "title": "The Title",
  "url": "https://...",
  "description": "One to two sentence description.",
  "date": "Apr 3, 2026",
  "image": "/images/blog/kebab-case-title.jpg"
}

Rules:

• date format: Mon D, YYYY
• image path: /images/blog/ + kebab-case title + .jpg

4. Download Images

Save each image to public/images/blog/ using the same kebab-case filename referenced in site.config.json. Medium image URLs may be from miro.medium.com or cdn-images-1.medium.com; Sells Brothers image URLs are usually from cdn.blot.im.

Example:

curl -sL -o public/images/blog/gas-town-from-clown-show-to-v1-0.jpg "<medium_image_url>"

5. Verify

Run npm run build or npm run dev and confirm the City Wire section renders the new cards and loads the new images correctly.