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.
I’m making some significant changes to the code behind this blog today. Specifically, I’m going to move my micropost “front matter” from the post.excerpt or post.custom_excerpt field to the “body” of the post where it might look like this example (taken from this very post):
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location: Toledo, IA
price: $50.00
note: This is just some sample "front matter". My parser removed the "split" characters from the delimiter you see here.
I Need VSCode Debugging!
To do this effectively I really need live dev debugging in VSCode, but how can I do that?
Took steps this morning to move billing for my GC/library Azure services to the library’s credit card.
Tornado Warning
Just came up from the basement after a Tama Co. tornado warning, and the wind is picking up again. 🌪 No visible damage outside, but I did find a puddle of pea size hail about 10 minutes after the storm.
Last weekend Mackenzie and I created a new Matomo analytics server on a DigitalOcean droplet w/ 2G of RAM. This weekend we created a new headless Ghost CMS droplet to support her portfolio site, and more. This evening I’m taking steps to begin rewriting this blog as a Ghost + 11ty reincarnation of what you see here now. The story of the underlying Ghost development and maintenance is told in Ghost Notes and its admin dashboard is available at https://ghost.summittservices.com/ghost.
Last evening I successfully completed a move of ItalianoWoods.com from a defunct presence on DigitalOcean to a landing site and working email via Azure and Azure DNS. Details can be found in a few places, including:
Mackenzie, my daughter, and I created this post documenting my wife’s Finale workflow for scanning and editing music on her Mac. We did this for my wife to celebrate her birthday preserve her sanity. Well, it was worth a shot. The birthday idea seemed more romantic, but mental health comes first.
The document was created using a process we recently built and documented in Creating Better Documentation. In this instance of the process we tried to annotate in yellow screen capture elements that need attention, and used red annotation to indicate things that require input or action of some kind. In some of the later images we failed and things that should be red were left highlighted in yellow. Sorry.