Add descriptions to all posts

Signed-off-by: Harsh Shandilya <msfjarvis@gmail.com>

content/posts/deploying-hugo-sites-with-github-actions.md

@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ date = 2019-12-04T09:40:00Z
 slug = "deploying-hugo-sites-with-github-actions"
 tags = ["hugo", "github actions", "static sites"]
 title = "Deploying Hugo sites with GitHub Actions"
-
+description = "GitHub Actions are awesome! Learn how to use it for continuous delivery of your static sites."
 +++
+
 For the longest time, I have used the [caddy-git] middleware for [caddyserver](https://caddyserver.com) to constantly deploy my [Hugo](https://gohugo.io) site from [GitHub](https://github.com/msfjarvis/msfjarvis.website).
 
 But this approach had a few problems, notably force pushing (I know, shush) caused the repository to break because the plugin didn't support those. While not frequent, it was annoying enough to seek alternatives.

content/posts/how-to-get-involved-in-open-source.md

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ title = "How to get involved in open source"
 slug = "how-to-get-involved-in-open-source"
 tags = ["open source"]
 categories = ["oss"]
+description = "Starting with OSS can be daunting for many. Here's a recap of my experiences with OSS with some tips on how to get started yourself."
 +++
 
 The most common question I get when I recommend open source as a launching pad for budding developers is "Where do I start?".

content/posts/publishing-an-android-library-to-github-packages.md

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ categories = ["android"]
 date = 2019-11-21T06:27:52Z
 slug = "publishing-an-android-library-to-github-packages"
 tags = ["android", "gradle", "github", "packaging"]
-title = "Publishing an Android library to GitHub packages"
-
+title = "Publishing an Android library to GitHub Packages"
+description = "GitHub recently rolled out Packages to the general public, allowing the entire develop-test-deploy pipeline to get centralized at GitHub. Learn how to use it to publish your Android library packages."
 +++
 GitHub released the Package Registry beta in May of this year, and graduated it to public availability in Universe 2019, rebranded as [GitHub Packages](https://github.com/features/packages "GitHub Packages"). It supports NodeJS, Docker, Maven, Gradle, NuGet, and RubyGems. That's a LOT of ground covered for a service that's about one year old.
 

content/posts/resolving-selinux-denials-on-android.md

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ title = "Understanding and resolving SELinux denials on Android"
 slug = "understanding-and-resolving-selinux-denials-on-android"
 tags = ["android", "selinux", "linux"]
 categories = ["android"]
+description = "SELinux is not the easiest technology to navigate, and handling it in Android custom ROMs can be daunting to newcomers. This post breaks down the more complex aspects of it into easy to understand steps for people to follow along"
 +++
 
 This blog post is mostly comprised of what used to be a [gist](https://gist.github.com) of mine. I decided it needs some additional reading on what exactly we're dealing with so a preface outlining what SELinux is and how to understand the rules we're writing has been added. The gist itself is from a time when I was far less knowledgeable and hence adjustments have been made accordingly, often with extra information.

content/posts/teachingkotlin-kotlin-for-android-java-developers.md

@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ date = "2019-09-20T08:00:00+05:30"
 slug = "teaching-kotlin--kotlin-for-android-java-developers"
 tags = ["teachingkotlin", "android", "kotlin"]
 title = "#TeachingKotlin - Kotlin for Android Java developers"
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+description = "Kotlin's been great for me -- and millions others, as evident by its explosive growth. Long-time Java developers may feel hesitant to give it a shot. This series aims to smoothen this transition, letting people know what benefits they might reap from Kotlin, and what differences should they be careful about."
 +++
-Anybody familiar with my work knows that I am a fan of the [Kotlin](https://kotlinlang.org/ "Kotlin") programming language, especially it's interoperability with Java with respect to Android. I'll admit, I've not been a fan since day one. The abundant lambdas worried me and everything being that much shorter to implement was confusing to a person whose first real programming task was in the Java programming language.  
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+Anybody familiar with my work knows that I am a fan of the [Kotlin](https://kotlinlang.org/ "Kotlin") programming language, especially it's interoperability with Java with respect to Android. I'll admit, I've not been a fan since day one. The abundant lambdas worried me and everything being that much shorter to implement was confusing to a person whose first real programming task was in the Java programming language.
+
 As I leaped over the initial hurdle of hesitation and really got into Kotlin, I was mindblown. Everything is so much better! Being able to break away from Java's explicit verbosity into letting the language do things for you is a bit daunting at first but over time you'll come to appreciate the time you save and in turn how many potential problems you can avoid by simply not having to do everything yourself. [Can't have bugs if you don't write code](https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode) :p
 
 As I've gotten more and more into the Kotlin ecosystem and community and converted developers into adopting Kotlin, into taking that first step, I've realised most of them have a common set of concerns and often a lack of knowledge about what Kotlin actually brings to the table and what are the drawbacks of using a "new" language over an established behemoth like Java.

content/posts/teachingkotlin-part-1-classes-and-objects-and-everything-in-between.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ date = "2019-09-23T15:00:00+05:30"
 slug = "teaching-kotlin--classes-and-objects"
 tags = ["android", "teachingkotlin", "kotlin"]
 title = "#TeachingKotlin Part 1 - Classes and Objects and everything in between"
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+description = "Part 1 of my #TeachingKotlin, this post goes over Kotlin classes, objects and how things like finality and staticity vary between Java and Kotlin."
 +++
 Classes in Kotlin closely mimic their Java counterparts in implementation, with some crucial changes that I will attempt to outline here.
 

content/posts/teachingkotlin-part-2-variables.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ date = "2019-09-30T15:00:00+05:30"
 slug = "teaching-kotlin--variables"
 tags = ["android", "teachingkotlin", "kotlin"]
 title = "#TeachingKotlin Part 2 - Variables"
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+description = "The second post in #TeachingKotlin series, this post goes over Kotlin's variables and their attributes, like visiblity and getters/setters."
 +++
 
 Even the variables in Kotlin are supercharged!

content/posts/teachingkotlin-part-3--caveats-coming-from-java.md

@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@ draft = true
 slug = "teachingkotlin-part-3--caveats-coming-from-java"
 tags = ["android", "teachingkotlin", "kotlin"]
 title = "#TeachingKotlin Part 3 - Caveats coming from Java"
+description = "Part 3 of #TeachingKotlin covers some subtle differences between Kotlin and Java that might affect your codebases as you start migrating to or writing new code in Kotlin."
 +++

content/posts/tools-for-effective-rust-development.md

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ title = "Tools for effective Rust development"
 slug = "tools-for-effective-rust-development"
 tags = ["dev", "rust"]
 categories = ["dev", "rust"]
+description = "Rust is an amazing systems language that is on an explosive rise thanks to its memory safety guarantees and fast, iterative development. In this post, I recap some of the tooling that I use with Rust to make coding in it even more fun and intuitive"
 +++
 
 [Rust] is a memory-safe systems language that is blazing fast, and comes with no runtime or garbage collector overhead. It can be used to build very performant web services, CLI tools, and even [Linux kernel modules](https://github.com/fishinabarrel/linux-kernel-module-rust)!

content/posts/why-i-went-back-to-the-gradle-groovy-dsl.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ date = 2019-10-25T20:23:00Z
 slug = "why-i-went-back-to-the-gradle-groovy-dsl"
 tags = ["groovy", "gradle", "kotlin", "android"]
 title = "Why I went back to the Gradle Groovy DSL"
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+description = "I was an early adopter of the Gradle Kotlin DSL, deploying it to multiple Android projects of mine, but lately it has been more trouble than I could care for. Here are my grievances with it."
 +++
 About an year ago when I first discovered the [Gradle Kotlin DSL](https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/kotlin_dsl.html), I was very quick to [jump](https://github.com/msfjarvis/viscerion/commit/c16d11a816c3c7e3f7bab51ef2f32569b6b657bf) [on](https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-Store/commit/3c06063153d0b7f71998128dc6fb4e5967e33624) [that](https://github.com/substratum/substratum/commit/ebff9a3a88781d093565526b171d9d5b8e9c1bed) [train](https://github.com/substratum/substratum/commit/5065e082055cde19e41ee02920ca07d0e33c89f5). Now it feels like a mistake.