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hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 07:03
Woke up by helping a neighbor clean up another neighbor’s Javelina Trash Day Carnage and I tell you what they got done a heck of a lot faster with my assistance.
They were putting stuff one at a time into a little box like it was a bus tub or something and decades-old muscle memory goes “that’s not how you clear a big top.” Prop the bin up, open it, start tossing shit in.
I had us done in under a minute.
Pretty proud of myself.
Also, aligning myself with Team Good Neighbor.
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 07:36
@gxwalsh that’s funny – so am I, and using the same resource while working on a new iteration of the site.
Let me know if anything’s way off.
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 07:44
@gxwalsh Yep (though the new iteration might be another SSG for change of pace).
Two main approaches, each with minor tradeoffs:
use separate sections content/post and content/note; this is the easiest with Hugo’s flow, but it adds complexity for “just show me all my timestamped content”
use a single blog section and assign categories to describe role (like “post” and “note”); this simplifies the global timestamp feed, but adds complexity if you’re using different layouts for each categority
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 07:54
@gxwalsh Hugo is an excellent choice, though the templating language is a chore if you’re used to Jekyll. My last persistent migration was Jekyll -> Hugo in 2015. Keep trying other stuff and coming back to Hugo.
Using Go templates kinda sucks. But Hugo’s speed, image handling, and render hooks are amazing. With render hooks you can bypass a lot of shortcode patterns.
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 08:14
@gxwalsh I primarily write local-only, though I’ve run a few interpretations of that.
Using Hugo’s data handling features to process CMS and other sources is possible, but digs way more into the templating language than I care for. Usually I’d preprocess with a script, generating frontmatter+HTML under content/.
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 08:19
@gxwalsh Yep! Though you can automate the other stages as well if that’s what you’re into.
One of my workflows was Hugo + reStructuredText, which is slow because of the way Hugo handles external commands. So I wrote a Neovim plugin to generate the HTML content from RST source, and adjusted settings to run the plugin on file write.
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 08:23
@gxwalsh I havn’t settled on a final decision for the next iteration, but one path uses the preprocessing and editor automation approach with Hugo:
https://hackers.town/@randomgeek/113626508159172295
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 08:37
@gxwalsh Those are the steps, though the process looks a tiny bit different:
dev mode:
launch hugo serve -D -N
write in editor; on save, editor launches preprocessor and writes content file; Hugo regenerates site and shows me the updated page
when satisfied, publish mode:
build prod version with hugo
run some basic automated tests
when satisfied, manually trigger publish; that was just a Git push when I was on Netlify, but right now is rsync
if POSSE logic is working, an announcement toot is automatically generated once the new post is accessible online
If I automate too much, there’s the automation blindness problem where I just see a wall of output and assume it’s fine. So I’ve reinserted a few manual stopping points.
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 08:38
@gxwalsh Yeah that’s familiar for sure. If I could actually settle on one workflow I’d be unstoppable.
For about an hour, until I got bored.
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 09:23
@gxwalsh Looking forward to it!
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 10:15
I dunno man. That’s a good teaser. Might be a good movie.
But – as excited as I was for 28 Weeks Later, it didn’t click as well for me as 28 Days Later. And of course I can’t helping hearing the line.
“Claims that the virus was caused by rage-infected monkeys have now been dismissed as bull–”
28 YEARS LATER – Official Trailer
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 10:48
@banjofox2 I don’t keep knives sharp enough to split that hair. I know Danny Boyle got peevish when anyone called it a zombie movie.
But it fits in there with the rest of the pop culture parables about the irrationality and infectiousness of mob violence, so I file as a zombie movie.
And 28 Weeks Later wasn’t bad it just felt like a sequel for a movie that didn’t need one.
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 14:27
Seeing a Humble Bundle that interests me, with a couple titles tentatively on my wishlist. Could get all of them and then some for less than the price of one game.
Along with a few titles I already own.
Titles which I still haven’t played.
(sigh)
If you’re saving money on a thing you’ll never open, are you still saving money?
Beamdog & Owlcat RPG Masters Encore
#FediGames
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 14:34
@earthshine I own five, maybe six depending on how you count them. Not necessarily all “enhanced” or “season pass” editions, but still.
I have at least played let’s see three of those.
I hate played past the introductory tutorial zone / arc on uh one.
Neverwinter Nights. The first one. When it came out. Made it probably 30% through the story, give or take.
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 14:42
@chuck Does that include “season pass” material?
a problem is I wander off, forget about it, then come back six months later so lost that I need to start over.
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 14:49
@Scmbradley
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 15:51
@bmac I think I’m at three times. So far.
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 15:57
@cinebox so does my pytest run
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 19:36
@IamMrsGeek on that insanely prohibitive individual healthcare market, no less.
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 19:36
@earthshine lost $45B? What, did Elon Musk buy them or something? Like an assassination wasn’t enough?
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 22:09
So far Minecraft is the closest to a role playing game experience, in that I’ve been playing for a year and a half and have steadfastly avoided anything that felt like moving a plot forward.
“You see the ruins of a portal to another realm.”
“Ooh that’ll make a nice fishing dock.”
If I could befriend the creepers with gunpowder brownies or something that would be perfect.
hackers.town: 2024-12-10 Tue 23:19
@oldcoder I revisit Minetwest every six months or so. It’s an amazing project, and I’m impressed with what some folks have done with it.
Hasn’t quite clicked for me as a replacement for the Minecraft habit, though. Vintage Story has come closest, so I guess I need a bit of lore and world-building done for me.