Journal : 2024-05-15

Slow progress on #Postcraft.

Yesterday I spent a very long time trying to figure out why, although I had s:Unfork working in isolation, it wasn't working after s:DirWalker. I got it working, but haven't a clue what the problem was. Note to self : write more tests.

I just spent 2 hours trying to figure out why my RDF handling code wasn't working after a switch(x){ case y: ... }. Foooolish Danny. I'd forgotten to put return in the case blocks

I wasn't getting the properties I needed in the context to render the front page. But now I believe I am.

{
  "rootDir": "/home/danny/HKMS/postcraft/danny.ayers.name",

  "siteURL": "https://danny.ayers.name",
  "subdir": "blog",

  "indexPage": {
    "filepath": "public/blog/index.html",
    "templateFilename": "layouts/mediocre/index-page_template.html"
  },

  "filepaths": [
    "2024-05-03_one.md",
    "2024-05-03_two.md"
  ],
}

Ok, I'm no longer concerned with the original markdown files, so before going any further I'll change filepaths to slugs. These will include the local subdirs leading to the slug proper, but no need to worry about that now. Especially since I noticed that s:DirWalker isn't recursing properly.

Front page is rendering - Major milestone reached!!!

TODO include milestone screen shot here

The code is so buggy & hacky, and the current end result so ugly. But it's working end-to-end.

There's a massive amount of code tidying & refactoring to do, but that's not one of the priorities right now. They are:

  • Make the pages pretty enough to put online, and put online
  • Organise the TODOs so that I'm clear what needs doing
  • Write the 'Hello (again) World!' post

I've done enough prep for these that they shouldn't take too long.

Next I need to sort out my plans for #FOAF-Retrospective. I'll be needing #Transmissions & #Postcraft in various places for that, so all this will still be getting attention.

I must avoid yak shaving but as I'm sorting out all the TODOs, I should keep an eye on the project management project bigger picture.

Plan

Postcraft

Remember I need to take down the old server

  • upload to server

  • make everything work

  • Hello World (again) post

  • Transmissions/Postcraft overview post

  • pinned posts

  • Atom feed

FOAF-Retrospective

  • FOAF video
  • Placeholders + a:manifest for FOAF-Archive
  • find papers

Kaggle-Preferences

  • get set up, run the demo

Journal : 2024-05-15