I want to build my site on commit, here’s what I tried first: set -eux rm -rf public hugo git add public echo "updated build directory" This worked! But it took some fiddling because I mistakenly set the date of this post in the future. Apparently you can do that and Hugo won’t add the pages for it, so it was running the build command but not actually updating anything. ...

Switching ports fixed a connection problem for some reason… the default one through sudo apt-get install hugo was from 2020, so intalled from source instead. Render: doesn’t seem to be picking up my commits as pulls. Just kidding it worked this time. All my links are to “example.com” – uhoh. Maybe I need to re-install the theme? Problem was the “baseUrl” in the config.toml New issue: clicking name in the top right doesn’t change the URL (i.e. doesn’t take you “home”) Images I first put things in a folder called “images” that was under ./resources/_gen/images – but that wasn’t right. I then moved it up to ./resources/images and tried doing some things I saw under Image Processing in the docs, like this: ...

A list of fun things I want to play around with on this: A favicon that has the moon but adjusts with the phase Similarly, but on the top of the page Some kind of counter that says how long its been since I posted, maybe some kind of “staleness” – could be an encouragement to write more or an indicator that it’s time to delete some things Generally messing with “themes” to personalize it more (there’s 3 different “modes” of PaperMod) Trying to make the [[post title]] style links from Logseq work here Emoji favicon https://css-tricks.com/emoji-as-a-favicon/ ...

I got a subscription to the Economist for Christmas this year (Thanks Taylor!). I’ve tried to read the whole thing cover to cover each week, but I’ve never been close to being up to speed (Currently a full issue plus some behind). That goal came from this tweet: I read @TheEconomist cover-to-cover because its content makes me think critically about the world. Its editors recently asked me a tough question: What is the one thing you'd do to create a more open world? See my answer below and share your answer here: https://t.co/snng1yCdRL https://t.co/J4uL2ccLcd ...

Render.com Register (with Github) a. (Act on your behalf): looks like it will only be able to do that on resources I grant the app access to New Static Site Push this thing to Github a. looks like it needs to be public, but I guess that’s the point anyway i. This got me thinking about how my github might actually get more traffic from people I know versus my blog which is exclusively strangers afaict. b. Seems like it should be able to be private, says “It looks like we don’t have access to your repo” in the logs, so I could grant it access. Go back and actually add the public assets Follow the namecheap instructions Voila! It worked. Overall it took about 20 minutes. ...

Gardening I read a few posts awhile back (I’ll link to them at some point, Will Larson) about a digital garden. Something that’s a little messy, your little corner of the internet. It’s not fully edited, it’s not trying to be anything. That’s something I liked. That it’s mostly for me, but I can keep iterating on it. https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden https://lethain.com/exuberant-sketches/ https://tomcritchlow.com/2019/02/17/building-digital-garden/ Nesting One of the things I found compelling this week was building a floorplan of the apartment I’m renting with my partner. I used “SweetHome 3D”, an open source app (after a lot of googling, and looking at pricing pages). The initial requirement was so that my partner could start strategizing for a couch purchase, and try to figure out what would fit where. But I found myself continuing past the point that I met that requirement. It felt like I was making a little home. ...