Day 20 – We’re Walking On The Air

…continuing from Day 8 – HARC The Herald Angels Sing …

We left Rudi hanging by his hooves on Day 8. He had quickly whipped up his first website, but felt that more could be done to add some Christmas Decorations.

A snowman perhaps? His mind wandered to the iconic Snowman tale by Raymond Briggs and the accompanying song (1982) which was sung by Peter Auty, who was a choirboy at St Paul’s Cathedral at the time.

We’re walking in the air
We’re floating in the moonlit sky
The people far below
Are sleeping as we fly

Walking

Here’s where we left off – with a complete single page website:

Now Vixen, the sharp-eyed little doe, noticed that Rudolph had recut the code to use the markdown() routine where the content was mostly text, instead of sprinkling functional HMTL tags. Even cleaner. No surprise, since she knew that…

John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 with the explicit goal that people could write in an easy‑to‑read, easy‑to‑write plain text format and then convert it to structurally valid HTML or XHTML.

Here’s a reminder of how that looks:

Floating

Yes, yes – but clean code won’t make it look pretty. How can we make it look more festive?

Rudi’s nose lit up – maybe a snowman background! In a whirr of hooves, he found a Community Commons licensed image and added two lines of code:

my &shadow = &background.assuming(
    :url<https://freesvg.org/img/1360260438.png>
);

plumbing in the background element like so:

my $rudi = site :register(shadow), page [
...
main [
        shadow;
        article markdown q:to/END/;
        ## About Me

Close, but no cigar.

Need to float those blocks in the Air he pondered and sprinkled some CSS into his Raku:

Okaaay – getting there.

Moonlit

Vixen tapped Rudi on the haunch, “remember that Santa and Mrs Claus prefer their screen in light mode” she whinnied. Rudi had forgotten all about this – he needed dark mode to keep his night vision ready for flying in the dark.

Again, the hooves clattered away.

Here is the final result:

And, so with a tap on the moon:

All the content is done, but the style is a bit so-so…

Sleeping

Rudolph looked on with quiet satisfaction at his work – certainly worth a cigar before his preparation sleep for the big night.

Rudolph, bright and cozy,
beneath the northern star,
draws slow on a mellow cigar
that glows like Yule afar.

~librasteve

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