Update blog with new about page and add newsletter

config.toml

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ paginate = 10
 author = "Salar Rahmanian"
 twitter = "@SalarRahmanian"
 largeTwitterCard = false
-introDescription = "Software Engineer based in San Francisco Bay Area with interests in Scala, Java, Haskell & NixOS"
+introDescription = "Software Engineer based in San Francisco Bay Area."
 ga_analytics = "UA-47014432-1"
 numberOfTagsShown = 14
 fallBackOgImage = "salar.jpg"

content/about.md

@@ -5,9 +5,17 @@ description = "About Salar Rahmanian"
 keywords = ["Salar", "Rahmanian", "Salar Rahmanian"]
 +++
 
-I , [Salar Rahmanian](https://www.softinio.com), am a software engineer based in San Francisco Bay area, California.
+I, [Salar Rahmanian](https://www.softinio.com), am a software engineer based in San Francisco Bay Area, California.
 
-I have been developing software since the age of eleven. My current passion is functional programming and distributed systems hence I like to spend my time with technologies like Scala, ZIO, AKKA and Kafka.
+I have been developing software since the age of eleven. My current passion is functional programming, big data and distributed systems. 
+
+I am particularly enthusiastic about the Scala Programming language and NixOS and technologies such as Kafka, Spark and Akka. 
+
+I try to make open source contributions when I can. I have contributed to the [ZIO](https://zio.dev) ecosystem, most notably leading and creating the [ZIO-Actors](https://zio.github.io/zio-actors/) and [ZIO-zmx](https://zio.github.io/zio-zmx/) projects.
+
+I am also organizer for a few meetup groups and arrange technical talk events. To find out more about them and join our community visit [SF Bay Area Techies](https://wwww.sfbayareatechies.com).
+
+[Subscribe to my newsletter](https://softinio.substack.com/)
 
 ![Salar Rahmanian's Family](/img/SalarRahmanianFamily.jpg)
 

content/post/introduction-to-akka-typed-using-scala.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title = "Introduction to Akka Typed Using Scala"
 date = 2020-10-24T20:32:41-07:00
 description = "An Introduction to AKKA Typed using Scala with an example"
-featured = true
+featured = false
 draft = false
 toc = true
 featureImage = "/img/akka_logo.svg"
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ shareImage = ""
 codeMaxLines = 30
 codeLineNumbers = false
 figurePositionShow = false
-keywords = ["concurrent", "concurrency", "actor model", "actor", "actors", "threads", "petri net", "coroutines", "distributed", "akka", "erlang", "elixir", "akka.net", "microsoft orleans", "orleans", "zio", "zio-actors", "swift language actors"]
+keywords = ["concurrent", "concurrency", "actor model", "actor", "actors", "threads", "petri net", "coroutines", "distributed", "akka", "erlang", "elixir", "akka.net", "microsoft orleans", "orleans", "zio", "zio-actors", "ZIO Actors","swift language actors"]
 tags = ["actor model", "concurrency", "distributed systems", "scala", "akka"]
 categories = ["concurrency", "distributed systems", "scala"]
 +++

content/post/introduction-to-zio-actors.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ shareImage = ""
 codeMaxLines = 30
 codeLineNumbers = false
 figurePositionShow = false
-keywords = ["concurrent", "concurrency", "actor model", "actor", "actors", "threads", "petri net", "coroutines", "distributed", "akka", "erlang", "elixir", "akka.net", "microsoft orleans", "orleans", "zio", "zio-actors", "swift language actors", "functional programming", "fp"]
+keywords = ["concurrent", "concurrency", "actor model", "actor", "actors", "threads", "petri net", "coroutines", "distributed", "akka", "erlang", "elixir", "akka.net", "microsoft orleans", "orleans", "zio", "zio-actors", "zio actors","swift language actors", "functional programming", "fp"]
 tags = ["actor model", "concurrency", "distributed systems", "scala", "zio", "zio-actors", "functional programming"]
 categories = ["concurrency", "distributed systems", "scala", "functional programming"]
 +++

data/menu.yaml

@@ -2,5 +2,7 @@
   link: about
 - name: Resumé
   link: resume
+- name: Newsletter
+  link: https://softinio.substack.com
 - name: Events
   link: https://www.sfbayareatechies.com

layouts/partials/sidebar.html

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+{{ $s := .Site.Params }}
+<aside class="sidebar">
+  <section class="sidebar_inner">
+    <h2>{{ $s.Author }}</h2>
+    <div>
+      {{ $s.IntroDescription }}
+    </div>
+    <a href='{{ absLangURL "about/" }}' class="button mt-1" role="button">{{ i18n "read_more" }}</a>
+    <h2>Subscribe</h2>
+    <div>
+    Subscribe to my newsletter
+    </div>
+    <a href="https://softinio.substack.com/p/welcome" class="button mt-1" role="button">subscribe</a>
+    {{- $posts := where (where .Site.RegularPages "Permalink" "!=" .Permalink) "Type" "in" $s.mainSections }}
+    {{- $featured := default 8 $s.numberOfFeaturedPosts }}
+    {{- with first $featured (where $posts "Params.featured" true)}}
+    <h2 class="mt-4">{{ i18n "featured_posts" }}</h2>
+    <ul>
+      {{- range . }}
+      <li>
+        <a href="{{ .Permalink }}" class="nav-link">{{ .Title }}</a>
+      </li>
+      {{- end }}
+    </ul>
+    {{- end }}
+    <h2 class="mt-4">{{ i18n "recent_posts" }}</h2>
+    <ul class="flex-column">
+      {{- $recent := default 8 $s.numberOfRecentPosts }}
+      {{- range first $recent $posts }}
+      <li>
+        <a href="{{ .Permalink }}" class="nav-link">{{ .Title }}</a>
+      </li>
+      {{- end }}
+    </ul>
+    {{- $tagsLimit := $s.numberOfTagsShown }}
+    {{- range $key, $value := .Site.Taxonomies }}
+    {{- if gt $value 0 }}
+    <div>
+      <h2 class="mt-4 taxonomy" id="{{ $key }}-section">{{ i18n $key }}</h2>
+      <nav class="tags_nav">
+        {{- $onPageTags := $.Page.Params.tags }}
+        {{- $slicedTags := ($value.ByCount | first $tagsLimit) }}
+        {{- range $slicedTags }}
+        <a href='{{ absLangURL $key }}/{{ (replace .Name "#" "%23") | urlize }}/' class="post_tag button button_translucent">
+          {{ upper .Name }}
+          <span class="button_tally">{{ .Count }}</span>
+        </a>
+        {{ end }}
+        {{ if gt (len $value.ByCount) $tagsLimit }}
+        <br>
+        <div class="post_tags_toggle button">{{ printf "all_%s" $key | i18n }}</div>
+        {{- $tagsInfo := newScratch }}
+        <div class="post_tags">
+          <div class="tags_list">
+            {{- range $value.Alphabetical }}
+            {{ $tagsInfo.Add "tagsInfo" (slice .Name .Count)}}
+            <a href='{{ absLangURL $key }}/{{ (replace .Name "#" "%23") | urlize }}/' class=" post_tag button button_translucent" data-position={{ .Count }}>
+              {{- upper .Name -}}
+              <span class="button_tally">{{ .Count }}</span>
+            </a>
+            {{ end }}
+            <div class="tags_sort"><span title="sort alphabetically">[A~Z]</span><span title="sort by count">[0~9]</span>
+            </div>
+            <span class="tags_hide"><svg class="icon">
+            <use xlink:href="#closeme"></use>
+          </svg></span>
+          </div>
+        </div>
+        {{- end }}
+      </nav>
+    </div>
+    {{- end }}
+    {{- end }}
+  </section>
+</aside>