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...

Updated: Jul 18, 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
Building My First Steamlit App
Streamlit · Development

Building My First Steamlit App

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...

Published: Jul 24, 2023
8 min read

Redefining an Azure Static Web App

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...

Published: Jul 6, 2023
2 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