From 3486529a29e61bf3e6fe2ffea7168e70fc0dd209 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas Lamicela <nupanick@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:27:56 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] try automatic blurbs

---
 _includes/layouts/base.njk | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/_includes/layouts/base.njk b/_includes/layouts/base.njk
index 1192eff..9595fec 100644
--- a/_includes/layouts/base.njk
+++ b/_includes/layouts/base.njk
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@
 		<meta charset="utf-8">
 		<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
 		<title>{{ title or metadata.title }}</title>
-		<meta name="description" content="{{ description or metadata.description }}">
+
+		{% set blurb = content | truncate(240) %}
+		<meta name="description" content="{{ description or blurb or metadata.description }}">
 		<link rel="alternate" href="/blog/feed.xml" type="application/atom+xml" title="{{ metadata.title }}">
 		<link rel="alternate" href="/blog/feed.json" type="application/json" title="{{ metadata.title }}">
 		<meta name="generator" content="{{ eleventy.generator }}">