Summitt Dweller's Blog

An old fart's memory dump: Lots of code, some life experiences, and a little humor. No politics!

Fixing a Broken GitHub Repo

2023-01-19

Don’t Push Enormous Files to GitHub! Pay close attention to the statement 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”.

My Hugo Timeline

2022-12-06

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.

How MY Web Works

2022-11-30

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:

The Derecho: Consolidated Posts and Microposts: August 10 thru September 6, 2020

2022-09-25

The following is a chronological consolidation of posts and microposts from August 10, commonly known in east and central Iowa as “The Day of the Derecho”, through September 6, 2020. The derecho hit my home in Toledo, Iowa, at about 11:30 AM on Monday, August 10, 2020. Straight-line winds were clocked at nearly 140 miles per hour, and sustained for more than 20 minutes across a path almost 40 miles wide.

August 2022 - Geocaching’s 20th Anniversary Celebration Event

2022-09-25

The following is a chronological consolidation of posts and microposts from August 6 through August 25, 2022. Westbound to Seattle - Day 1 Posted on 2022/08/07 4:57 PM from Toledo, IA Westbound to Seattle - Day 2 Posted on 2022/08/07 4:58 PM from Toledo, IA Westbound to Seattle - Day 3 Posted on 2022/08/07 4:58 PM from Toledo, IA Eastbound from Seattle - Day 1 Posted on 2022/08/07 9:13 PM from Toledo, IA Eastbound from Seattle - Day 2 Posted on 2022/08/08 1:39 PM from Toledo, IA Eastbound from Seattle - Day 3 Posted on 2022/08/08 2:44 PM from Toledo, IA Waiting for my ride to Johnston.

Proper Python

2022-09-24

What follows is the README.md file from my GitHub repo where https://blog.summittdweller.com is built. It outlines how to “properly” add Python to a project such that we can create an easily reproducible “virtual environment” without storing the necessary Python libraries in GitHub. From the README.md… blogs-SummittDweller The Python portions of this repo were gleaned from https://github.com/SummittDweller/hikes . This was the repo for my https://blog.SummittDweller.com/ static website before I moved the blog to Ghost in 2023.