A New Pagefind Enabled Blog!

 2024-12-18

So, node and npm are maybe not “all the rage” these days, but they do the job nicely for me.

So, how might I ONCE AGAIN approach combining Hugo with Pagefind in the cloud? Well, A Powerful Blog Setup with Hugo and NPM   * by Tom Hombergs looked like a promising place to start. The process that Tom advocates leverages a neat little package called hugo-bin   .

Microposts from iOS

 2024-11-10

Wow, this post is long overdue.

For as long as I can remember I’ve been looking for, or building and using, a workflow that would let me create quick and simple microposts for this blog using my iPhone. I want that workflow to automatically record my location (in the form of a city/town reference) and date/time. With the help of my daughter, Mackenzie, I’ve had workflows that used Working Copy and iOS Shortcuts to get this done, but I never really understood the entire process and over time it broke down and I was unable to repair it. It’s time to revisit those pieces and I’m going to follow, and document here, the steps and components presented in Post to Eleventy from iOS with Drafts, Shortcuts and Working Copy   . The only change I anticipate will be pointing the workflow at this Hugo   blog rather than an Eleventy one, and those differences should be minimal and manageable.

NOT Like a Rolling Stone

 2024-10-11

Where has the last year gone?  While life (metaphorically the stream in the hero image) rolls on, this blog (any of the moss covered rocks in the image) has not.

This blog was born of good intentions, but frankly it’s too hard for an old fart like me to remember how to maintain it and make contributions.  Having not posted here in many months, I had to consult my “documentation”, and ultimately my retired password manager, to get back in and post this.  That’s unacceptable, and it won’t happen again.  

Spinning Up StaticCMS

 2024-01-13

Today is Saturday, January 13, 2024, and I won’t be able to watch the KC Chief’s wildcard playoff game vs. the Miami Dolphins tonight because it is streaming ONLY on Peacock, and I refuse to pay them for the “privilege” to watch it live.  So, I’m going to do something productive instead.  Let’s see if I can spin up an instance of StaticCMS   to provide an OPEN CMS for the content editor(s) behind the Wieting Theatre website   .  

Snowpocalypse 2024 - Round 2

 2024-01-13

Just thought I would post a couple more photos, with a probable update later today.  Took these photos yesterday (Friday, January 12) at about noon when I ventured outside to clear the driveway.  Didn’t quite get it all done because it was just too cold and windy, and the snow was still falling.  I didn’t even attempt to clear the front porch… ain’t nobody coming to visit today anyway.  8^)

Snowpocalypse 2024?

 2024-01-10

Maybe not as bad as predicted (at least per some predictions) but it was enough wet snow for me.  Took almost an hour to clear using my EGO cordless snow-thrower (love it) and there’s more to be done before Mackenzie and I can leave for work in the morning.  

Fortunately both Grinnell College and South Tama County schools were closed today.  GC re-opens at noon tomorrow and STC just announced that they will be closed on Wednesday too.  

On-prem Servers with StaticCMS and Remote Access for the Wieting

 2023-12-29

It’s no secret that I love building ridiculously inexpensive but secure and reliable static web sites.  Unfortunately, adding and maintaining content can be a pain.  I’d rather write code than content!  So, I also want to pawn that content responsibility off on others, but that means teaching them to use VSCode   – my means of editing static content – or providing a CMS (content management system)   they can work with.  There’s no such thing as a static CMS so now I need some “dynamic” components.  Unfortunately my “dynamic” CMS requires user authentication because *we want SOMEONE editing our content, not EVERYONE! *That always seems to be pricey, at least by comparison to our $5/month static website.    

Building My First Steamlit App

 2023-07-24

I’ve been wanting to give Streamlit   a try for some time now. Recently, I found Streamlit DataScience Apps   , a GitHub repo full of Streamlit apps, written by Jcharis   . In particular, I thought I would take the Job_Search_App_with_Streamlit_Forms_n_GithubAPI   code for a spin.

Redefining an Azure Static Web App

 2023-07-06

Today’s burning question… Can I easily “redefine” an Azure Static Web App?

So, the source code for my password-protected Wieting-Guild-Pages   is broken and I can’t update the stale old content that’s currently there. It’s a long story. Fortunately, I’ve rebuilt that code in a new GitHub repo and have it working again. Yay!

Now, can I take the deployment parts of the old/broken repo and apply them to the new repo and make it all work again?

Upgrading Matomo PHP

 2023-06-12

This afternoon I’m adding https://digital.grinnell.edu (site ID is 17) to my own Matomo instance and I’m prompted to upgrade PHP on that Matomo droplet (DigitalOcean). I did so quite easily following Upgrade PHP from 7.2 to 7.4 on CentOS 8 and Apache   . I’ve also updated my Drupal version, and some modules, in https://digital.grinnell.edu   along with adding the matomo module, but that module is now reporting: