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commit e4b5b9c088f31c5730a9495d6f2f7f956f29111d
parent 131427ce95519b455024b778885668c609924bd1
Author: Damian Myrda <damian@prime8.dev>
Date:   Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:42:40 -0600

revert(blog): use frontmatter date instead of git/file system dates

Diffstat:
M
website/src/blogs/building-my-portfolio.md
 | 
1
+
M
website/src/blogs/index.ts
 | 
26
+++++++-------------------
M
website/src/schemas/blog.ts
 | 
1
-

3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/website/src/blogs/building-my-portfolio.md b/website/src/blogs/building-my-portfolio.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 id: building-my-portfolio
 title: Building a TUI-Inspired Portfolio
 description: How I built this terminal-style portfolio with Astro
+date: 2026-01-16
 tags:
   - Astro
   - TypeScript
diff --git a/website/src/blogs/index.ts b/website/src/blogs/index.ts
@@ -1,17 +1,11 @@
-import { statSync } from "node:fs";
-import { resolve, dirname } from "node:path";
-import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
 import matter from "gray-matter";
 import { parseMarkdown, removeFirstH1 } from "../utils/markdown";
 
-const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
-
 export interface Blog {
   id: string;
   title: string;
   description: string;
   date: string;
-  modifiedDate?: string;
   content?: string;
   url?: string;
   image?: string;
@@ -24,27 +18,21 @@ const blogModules = import.meta.glob("./*.md", {
   import: "default",
 });
 
-export const blogs = Object.entries(blogModules)
-  .map(([path, content]) =>
-    parseBlog(resolve(__dirname, path), content as string),
-  )
+export const blogs = Object.values(blogModules)
+  .map((content) => parseBlog(content as string))
   .sort((a, b) => new Date(b.date).getTime() - new Date(a.date).getTime());
 
-function formatDate(date: Date): string {
-  return date.toISOString().split("T")[0];
-}
-
-function parseBlog(path: string, markdown: string): Blog {
-  const stats = statSync(path);
-
+function parseBlog(markdown: string): Blog {
   const { data, content } = matter(markdown);
 
   const blog: Partial<Blog> = {
     id: data.id as string | undefined,
     title: data.title as string | undefined,
     description: data.description as string | undefined,
-    date: formatDate(stats.birthtime),
-    modifiedDate: formatDate(stats.mtime),
+    date:
+      data.date instanceof Date
+        ? data.date.toISOString().split("T")[0]
+        : (data.date as string | undefined),
     url: data.url as string | undefined,
     content: parseMarkdown(removeFirstH1(content)),
     image: data.image as string | undefined,
diff --git a/website/src/schemas/blog.ts b/website/src/schemas/blog.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ export function getSchemaForBlog(blog: Blog) {
     headline: blog.title,
     description: blog.description,
     datePublished: blog.date,
-    dateModified: blog.modifiedDate || blog.date,
     url: `${SITE_URL}/blog/${blog.id}`,
     author: personSchema,
     publisher: personSchema,