I’ve been trying to find a cheap way to host an HTML page with a bit of React on it that can be deployed just by uploading it with an existing service I use. The React didn’t play too well with Micro.blog’s single page feature. I have a DigitalOcean account, so I uploaded it there for the moment.
Good luck Ethan!
Said our goodbyes to Ethan this morning as he heads to McKendree University in Illinois to play as part of their golf team.
It’s been a weekend of ups and downs but mostly tears as our close family of four deals with the prospect of Ethan living abroad for most of the year.
The good thing is he’s back for Christmas for a few weeks and then he’s back in April / May for the start of the golf season.
It’s going to be a great opportunity for him and I’m sure he’ll be a better person and golfer for it once he finishes his four years.
Go Bearcats! 😄
A great night at the golf club tonight, giving Ethan a big send-off before he heads to the States on Monday morning. A fantastic night of food, drink, chat and music. A few tears at the end of the night, but that’s been the way of it the last few days as the big day arrives.
I have a collection of posts in my blog’s archives that mostly contain links with a single image and a comment. A lot of the links for these posts are now returning 404s. I’m tempted to just bring all the images together in a single Micro.blog collection and remove the posts.
Time for a three-column theme for Micro.blog?
The idea of a three-column theme for a Micro.blog is growing on me.
Bothy was a nice starter for learning about how themes work in Hugo and Micro.blog, but I would like to do more with a theme.
Here are just a few ideas I thought of for a new theme
- Show a header image - I like the idea of a header image for your website. I love the simplicity of text, but having a more visual theme is something that I think is missing from the current collection of Micro.blog themes.
- Show a micro update using emojis or just one word - A little bit of extra meta to let people know what you are up to.
- Show the latest image(s) from a category - Showing images from a particular category would add another visual element to the page.
- Show recent posts - A staple of many a WordPress blog back in the day. Time for this to make a comeback!
With such a larger number of elements for this theme, I might start off with a blank HTML page and start outlining what I need using Tailwind CSS to get a quick prototype up and running. I can then iterate on that for a while, working out the finer points. Once I am happy with it, I can then start building the theme using the finished prototype.
Picked up these A6 notebooks that Atoms To Astronauts were selling. This set of notebooks comprises of covers from maths, chemistry and physics.
Just 48 pages in each notebook, which I didn’t think was a lot, but it’s the same as a standard Field Notes notebook.
Bothy 1.0.0 is finally here. Summaries are now supported, as well as several styling fixes included. A good time to give it a major release.
I have made lots of mistakes building the Bothy theme, and I have even shipped some of those mistakes as well! On the positive side, I have learned a lot from it.
The next theme should be more of a straightforward process, but I won’t be starting on that until the darker nights have kicked in.
Bothy now supports category pages and the recently added category intro text.
Update is available in the plugins page.
Great afternoon of golf with the wee guy. Getting to the point where he now takes money off me every time we go out now. 😂
