Fathers and Sons
Traveled to Iowa City to see Luis A. perform in a production of “Fathers and Sons” at the University of Iowa, part of the annual New Plays Festival there. Found a geocache outside the theatre after the show.
Middle School Soccer Dual
My back isn’t as sore this morning as I expected it might be. I did ref some middle school soccer matches last night on a VERY hard field at STC. Managed to trip over a sprinkler head that I don’t think has been “used” in years.
Cold Morning Clear Lake
Camping at Clear Lake State Park and I have to admit it’s cold. My phone says the temp is 37°F and my little space heater appears to be broken. It gets warm but the fan doesn’t work so that’s all. Heading to the shower, then breakfast at TJs, then to Menards for a new space heater!
PCA Weekend
Departing for the PCA (Peoples’ Choice Awards) weekend in Clear Lake / Mason City. Got The Some IT in tow. First camping of the season.
Sold Mower and Bunk Bed
Both my EGO self-propelled mower and old twin-over-full bunk bed sold and taken away today. Yay! Next up, The Rolling Stone camper and Ecotric eBike.
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 reading right now – really needed a search feature, so the “Search” box on this page (I hope it’s there) is the outcome.
Glad I Found Pagefind
So, I started looking closely at search options and considered things like Lunr, which I’ve used before, and Solr, which I both love and hate (because of its JAVA roots). Pagefind was, of course, also on that short list and it quickly solidified its position at the top of the list when I found Adding search to an Eleventy site by Mike.
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Last evening I followed Using PageFind with Eleventy for Search to try and implement robust search capability in this blog. I’m working in a new pagefind branch of the code to pull this off.
Barb Sprayed the Snow-on-the-Mountain
Barb came in this afternoon and sprayed broadleaf control on the out-of-control “Snow on the Mountain” around the house.
Another MS Soccer in the Books
Completed my third soccer officiating assignment tonight… STC middle school girls and boys doubleheader, plus two B-games, vs. Williamsburg. Another 2.5 hours total play, but again, not too bad. I still have so much to learn!
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 lots of time and bandwidth every time this blog gets rebuilt, and then they are rendered at a fraction of their original size. This is exceptionall wasteful and unnecessary.
So, my task this morning is to install, configure, and engage the s3cmd tools to help get this done. There’s DigitalOcean-specific guidance provided in Setting Up s3cmd 2.x with DigitalOcean Spaces so that’s where I will begin. Here goes…
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