Summitt Dweller's Blog

An old fart's memory dump: Lots of code and a little fun. No politics!

Wrap EVERYTHING in NPM!
Azure · Development · DigitalOcean · Work

Wrap EVERYTHING in NPM!

So, node and npm seem to be all the rage these days, and perhaps for good reason. I recently fell in love with Eleventy/11ty over Hugo because it's Javascript, not Go, and it's elegantly simple with...

Published: May 19, 2023
5 min read
My Blog To-Do List
Development · Eleventy · Ghost

My Blog To-Do List

Witness the birth of a new blog! Actually, a new version of a very old blog. There's still a lot of work to do. So, here's my "to-do" list, as it pertains to this blog, along with possible sources...

Updated: Apr 20, 2023
11 min read
Planting Sempervivum tectorum (and More)
Home

Planting Sempervivum tectorum (and More)

This morning I started an experiment... clipping leaves ("lobes" might be a better term for these things) from a healthy, indoor Sempervivum tectorum. What's that, you ask? The common name is Hens...

Published: Jun 6, 2023
2 min read
Roadtrip: Geowoodstock 2023
Geocaching · Vacation

Roadtrip: Geowoodstock 2023

Geowoodstock 2023 (GC89GMX) and Kentucky's oldest surviving geocache (GC39E) were the intended destinations of another epic roadtrip with gossamar on May 25-28, 2023. The route and cache count...

Updated: May 31, 2023
3 min read
A Pagefind Problem?
Development · Azure · DigitalOcean · Hugo

A Pagefind Problem?

Not Just a Hugo Issue Take note of the question mark at the end of the title, otherwise it could be somewhat misleading. This is not really a problem with Hugo, but one with cloud deployment of...

Updated: May 19, 2023
5 min read
Searching for a Search Solution
Development · DigitalOcean · Eleventy

Searching for a Search Solution

A few months ago I sat in on a CFE.dev webinar and I was really impressed with what I saw. I made a note to come back and look closer at Pagefind, and my new blog -- this blog that you're presumably...

Published: Apr 20, 2023
8 min read
Engaging `s3cmd` to Download and Resize Images from DO Spaces
Development · DigitalOcean

Engaging `s3cmd` to Download and Resize Images from DO Spaces

Earlier in this blog there's a micropost that lays out the problem at hand. In a nutshell, most of the photos I saved in DigitalOcean Spaces are too big to be effective in this blog. They suck up...

Published: Apr 16, 2023
8 min read
How I Added a Collection to This Blog
Development

How I Added a Collection to This Blog

What follows is an excerpt taken directly from this project's `README.md` file.

Updated: Apr 12, 2023
5 min read
Moving Front Matter to the Rear

Moving Front Matter to the Rear

I've been using an iOS app called Publisher for Ghost to craft and post new microposts from my iPhone. Just one problem so far... I can't seem to successfully edit and save excerpt content so my...

Updated: Apr 5, 2023
3 min read