Add jekyll helper post

_posts/2018-01-30-generate-new-jekyll-post.md

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+---
+title: Adding a Jekyll helper script
+slug: generate-new-jekyll-post
+layout: post
+categories: ''
+force: false
+date: '2018-01-30 00:00:00 +0000'
+---
+
+After a month or so of blogging with [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/), I'm very happy with the platform. In particular, I feel that having dived much deeper into its internal workings than I had done before, I expect it to be able to support my pretty basic blogging needs well into the future.
+
+One minor annoyance has been the lack of an easy way to generate new post templates. This is an irritation because having to manually create a new file and manually fill in all the [front matter](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/frontmatter/) values adds friction to a process that should be as fluid as possible.
+
+So today I've added a simple but useful script to my Jenkins repo, which allows a new post to be generated from the command line with minimal effort.
+
+It provides the following interface:
+
+```
+Usage: new [options]
+    -t, --title TITLE                Title for post
+    -s, --slug SLUG                  Slug for post
+    -l, --layout LAYOUT              Layout for post
+    -c, --category CATEGORY          Add category for post (can be specified multiple times)
+    -f, --force                      Overwrite existing file
+```
+
+So this command:
+
+```
+./bin/new -t "Here's a new post" -s new-post-here -c tutorials -c random
+```
+
+generates a new post with an appropriate date and the following front matter:
+
+```
+---
+title: Here's a new post
+slug: new-post-here
+layout: post
+categories: tutorials random
+date: '2018-01-30 00:00:00 +0000'
+---
+
+Hello reader...
+```
+
+I expect that this will make it even easier to post on this blog! If you could find this useful, it's available [on GitHub](https://github.com/rfwatson/techblog/blob/master/bin/new).