Attention!

Check out my new TESTING page where I hope to continue testing new features. Also, be sure to have a look at my new HIKES site and especially some of the “highlighted” hikes that are listed in bold there.

Note that HIKES used to be a “section” here, but there are a lot of them so I made a site just for them.

As I started to follow-up on Gating My Content & More - Parts 1 and 2 I quickly realized that I’ve already forgotten most of what I learned about eleventy back in December. So, since I already have years of Hugo experience, I elected to “begin again” with Migrating from Hugo to Eleventy and that article makes an early reference to A Deep Dive Into Eleventy Static Site Generator. If those fail there’s Let’s Learn Eleventy.

In case it’s needed later, I captured all of the sites listed above in a OneTab page.

Gating My Content & More

I started to create a lengthy post here but ended up moving it to my professional blog. So, please look for the start of this subject in Gating My Content & More - Parts 1 and 2.

Rename Azure Subscription

Today I plan to follow the guidance found in Rename Azure Subscriptions and Find Your Environments Faster to fix the name of my personal Azure subscription 1, and maybe more. That’s a horrible name, I know!

Done! The new subscription name is SummittDweller Pay-As-You-Go. Much better!

Gating My Content

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Gating Content in JAMstack Sites

This section’s title was borrowed from a Stackbit article with the same title, Gating Content in JAMstack Sites. Working through that article to password protect some of the content at https://Wieting.TamaToledo.com is my tech pursit today.

Nope, Not on Netlify

😦 Last evening I took a shot at implementing the Netlify Identity tricks from the aforementioned article, but could not easily get it to work. The problem, I think, is that the https://Wieting.TamaToledo.com on Netlify already uses Netlify Identity for authentication of my Netlify CMS forms, and adding a second, separate instance of that service isn’t trivial and perhaps isn’t even feasible. I also tried implementing some quick Staticrypt CLI protection but that also failed. Netlify does provide a really quick and painless solution, but it costs $20/month, at a minimum, to enable it.

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Fixing a Broken GitHub Repo

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Don’t Push Enormous Files to GitHub!

Pay close attention to the subtitle above! A couple of days ago I was working on content for Tama-Toledo Community Visioning and I added a large socialmedia.zip file to the source repo, and then very stupidly pushed it to GitHub and the repo’s main branch. Naturally, the push didn’t finish so I removed the file and pushed a new commit to “remove it permanently”. Well, that ain’t how git works!

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Today I discovered a slick trick for “local” development of my first Hugo Module. The guidance I used was found in Working with Hugo Module Locally and it was spot-on! In my case the key was the additon of one line, two if you include the comment, to my project’s config.yml file:

// Innocent line below!
replace github.com/SummittDweller/hugo-timeline => /Users/mark/GitHub/hugo-timeline

Yes, you gotta’ love Hugo, but I now think 11ty might be worth a look. Also there’s Hosting Eleventy on GitHub Pages.

My Hugo Timeline, A New Hugo Module

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What follows is an excerpt from this blog’s README.md file.

I’ve successfully added the code to drive a new /timeline page as part of this blog, but I did so “locally”, and now I’d like to repeat the process but using the aforementioned SummittDweller/hugo-timeline module.

I used guidance found in Hugo Modules: Getting Started to make this happen, like so:

╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/blogs-SummittDweller ‹main› 
╰─$ brew install go
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/blogs-SummittDweller ‹main› 
╰─$ brew upgrade   # This is not "required", but probably overdue.

╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/blogs-SummittDweller ‹main*› 
╰─$ mkdir content/timeline/.out-of-the-way      # vvv Moving existing local stuff out of the way vvv
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/blogs-SummittDweller ‹main*› 
╰─$ mv -f layouts/partials/hugo-timeline* content/timeline/.out-of-the-way/.   
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/blogs-SummittDweller ‹main*› 
╰─$ mv -f layouts/shortcodes/hugo-timeline* content/timeline/.out-of-the-way/.
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/blogs-SummittDweller ‹main*› 
╰─$ mv -f static/css/hugo-timeline* content/timeline/.out-of-the-way/.        

╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/blogs-SummittDweller ‹main*› 
╰─$ hugo mod init github.com/SummittDweller/blogs-SummittDweller        
go: creating new go.mod: module github.com/SummittDweller/blogs-SummittDweller
go: to add module requirements and sums:
        go mod tidy

Next, to pull in SummittDweller/hugo-timeline as a module I turned to the config.yml file and guidance found in Hugo Modules: everything you need to know!. Additions to config.yml are:

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Ya’ gotta love Hugo! I just completed my first Jekyll-to-Hugo conversion, and made it a Hugo module. It’s taken me a couple of years to realize the power of Hugo modules, and I have to say it’s AWESOME, and perfectly implemented.

The process of conversion briefly is documented in the README.md file at SummittDweller/hugo-timeline, and the first use of it as a module appears elsewhere in this blog at My Hugo Timeline, A New Hugo Module. The timeline itself can be seen at https://blog.SummittDweller.com/timeline. Check it out!

How MY Web Works

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I’ve been building websites and apps for a lot of years now, and over time I’ve used a plethora of different frameworks and tools to do so. I’ve also involved a number of registrars, DNS strategies, source code repositories, and web hosts… frankly too many to remember or even count.

In my old age I’d love to have a dynamic document, or two, where I can track things like this:

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