Bit of a work in progress still

I’m moving hosting providers slowly and want to set up a BlueSky PDS, they use caddy, and I’m interested in the fact that has an api for configuration

I’ll update this as I go

for now the only thing I can say: check your paths people

EDIT 2024-11-28

Got ntfy running on the server, nice and painless

I’m starting to like caddy

EDIT 2024-11-29

Portainer and docker are running. Now to move Gitea.

TL;DR

Run: npm i -D nodemon concurrently

Add the following npm scripts

"dev:full": "concurrently --kill-others \"npm run scss:dev\" \"npm run dev:nodemon\"",
"dev:nodemon": "nodemon --exec \"npm run dev\"",
"scss": "sass src/scss/:static/style/",
"scss:dev": "sass -w src/scss/:static/style/"

Add npm run scss && before the build, package, preview and prepare scripts

"build": "npm run scss && svelte-kit build",
"package": "npm run scss && svelte-kit package",
"preview": "npm run scss && svelte-kit preview",
"prepare": "npm run scss && svelte-kit sync",

The setup

So I started a little project (hopefully I will write about it soon) and I tought I would write the frontend in svelte

Unsurprisingly, less painful

Github actions are wonderful, love the integration, and you can find pretty much everything you need on the marketplace.

The workflow is almost the same:

1. Checkout
2. Get Hugo
3. Build with Hugo
4. Rsync

you can check out the yaml here

Differences

I don’t need to keep a Hugo executable in the repo, there is an Action that gets the latest version for me.

I can keep the ssh key in a repository secret instead of the janky encrypted file that I used before, there probably was a way with Travis, but nothing quite as simple

Blog

this page you are looking at

It started with a youtube video

And as usual it spiraled out of control (took me a lot of time to update the blog)

So I made the repo as the video showed, then I realized I like having as close to a single command as possible

So I started up on an install script, then I remembered that dotbot was a thing

Why reinvent the wheel?

So I didn’t… Mostly

I wasn’t particularly satisfied with the shell module, what I wanted to do with it was a bit more complex than was elegant with dotbot.

So the theme i used until now was Blackburn, it was nice, but the background was just too white for me.

Now you might say that i should just override the theme’s CSS and be done with it, but I don’t have that kind of aesthetic sense.

I really should have.

But here I am, with a new template, that I built, almost from scratch, so let’s see what I learned in the past few days.

If you found this post while trying to optimize your angular templates, I have a cautionary tale for you. This might be just me, but this one hurt.

At work we have an AngularJS application. This application has one particular list really long, really complex, really grinds the tablets to a halt. How do you solve that?

My first tought was, there is too many watches in there. One-time bind all the things. for those of you that dont know one-time binding is done by adding two colons at the beginnig of the variable name {{::variable}}. It gets evaluated once, the first time it has a value, and then angular just forgets about it.

So it started with the new xkcd today, I tought “this is easy, I’ll be done in an hour”.

Then I went down the rabbit-hole that is customizing Hugo.

But first the generator

You can check it out here

The application itself is rather simple, it is carried by two functions, calling each other.

The first, taking an array, and making a string out of all it’s elements

function pickOneOfEach (arr) {
  let result = ''

  for (let el of arr) {
    if (Array.isArray(el)) {
      result += pickRandom(el)
    } else {
      result += String(el) // turn everything to string, because .toString() can be unreliable in what it returns
    }
  }

  return result
}

And a second one, getting me a random element from an array

So today after a long while I finally got around to automating the deploy of the blog.
Tough not the way I initially thought.

The first idea was to install Hugo on the server and have it periodically pull and rebuild the repository

Then I remembered Travis CI.

I quickly looked it up, and saw that I was not the first to think up the idea (no big surprise there), so let’s see what we can find.

A thirty-something year old programmer from Romania

Will spend a lot of time to automate a simple task rather than doing it by hand

Will also bash his head at a problem until he either solves it, or gets distracted by food