2022-05-02 : Random Geekery

[2022-05-02 Mon 13:20]

Trying to use Hugo and ox-hugo to have sort of a Tumblelog with Org Mode.

What’s a tumblelog? Just kind of a stream-of-consciousness blog. Might have recurring topics. Might not. Posts might have titles. They might not. Might be short notes. Might be long essays.

Why? Inspired by the Rachel Quickblogge. Course she did hers the smart and quick way, using WordPress. But I gotta be me, and overthinking it is what I do best.

Looks nice, yes? Starting with the familiar Hyde theme. Going on vacation now, so it may take me a few days to turn this project into a proper mess.

[2022-05-02 Mon 14:28]

Gotta wait for nameserver stuff to propagate. Patience is not consistently one of my virtues.

[2022-05-02 Mon 14:56]

Note added with an Org Mode capture template, though I still need to manually assemble a bit.

Code Sample

    (setq org-capture-templates
      '(("t" "Tumblelog" entry
         (file+olp+datetree bmw/tumble-log)
         "* %U %?\n:properties:\n:export_file_name: nnn.md\n:end:\n")
        ))

Less manual construction than a couple minutes ago!

I’ll have to learn some Elisp to make it work how it does in my head.

[2022-05-02 Mon 15:26]

So what’s the plan?

use Org mode for authoring and organizing on my side of things
take advantage of Netlify features where possible
loads of IndieWeb of course

ox-hugo and Hugo were the easiest to start with on this idea, but I may end up somewhere else. Elder.js and Orga could lead me down another path, for example.

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2022-05-02 Mon 08:06

I can tell it’s first weekday of vacation because I’m all twitchy.

Well.

We’ll just have to work on that.

hackers.town: 2022-05-02 Mon 09:11

Been so thorough in putting everything where the cats can’t get at them that I have no idea where anything is.

hackers.town: 2022-05-02 Mon 10:22

Bringing the Atreus keyboard. might even use it.

Code Sample

    brew install gnu-typist

Look. This laptop won’t play any of my games. I need to amuse myself somehow when people are doing people things.

2015 MacBook Pro on a laptop stand, with the funky-looking Atreus keyboard from KeyboardIO and a reference card in front of it.

hackers.town: 2022-05-02 Mon 12:25

Few things make me appreciate Hugo more than trying out a “quick idea” in Gatsby.

hackers.town: 2022-05-02 Mon 15:35

Four notes added already and thinking yeah I better get pagination in place soon.