On a visit to the farm
Creating this new post from my phone this morning while I visit the farm.
Now Are We Done?
This test should return an accurate timestamp PLUS a valid “location” and “coordinates” from Drafts.
Thinking ahead, the “Publish Micropost to My Blog” script needs a couple more things:
- The “title:” field should automatically populate from the Draft title (first line) and it should be in TitleCase.
- Coordinates in Toledo or Tama (or other frequent stops) should get location tags without having to call the
PositionStackAPI.
Testing My New Micropost from Drafts
I modified the # solovyov.net blog post publish script giving it a new name of Publish Micropost to My Blog and so far it’s working nicely! It does not insert the location: or coordinates: values as I’d like yet, but stay tuned!
Back to Drafts
Yesterday I took a quick look at a notes-taking app called Obsidian. Very promising, but I’m already invested in Drafts (to the tune of $20/year) and it too has been rapidly improving. So, I joined the Drafts Community and started looking for some guidance. Today I’m going to try implementing one or two things based on Generate Static Site from Drafts Notes. Wish me luck!
My Grandparent's 1926 California Trip Project
In October 1926 my grandparents, Clarence and Miriam Abia McFate, packed their family into what I imagine was a pickup truck with a homemade camper in the bed and embarked on a trip that grandma, Miriam, described as…
With the auto route traveling west, in a house built on a Ford with all modern convenience of camp life. Our house is equipped with a gasoline stove for cooking, a small wood heater for heating, 1 small medicine cabinet, with all necessities of a young hospital. Folding table and chairs, 1 day bed, used in day time as a seat and a place for our bed covers, when not in use. One cupboard and all cooking utensils including a pressure cooker. We fasten tent and camp cots on out side. All in all we have a very comfortable way to travel. Not to fast but just fast enough for the most enjoyable time of our lives.
Following you will find each day drive as we journey on.
Continue Reading »2025-Feb-2 at 08:54 AM
I hope this is my last installment of “Mackenzie Posts” as the news is all good.
Mackenzie has been back to work part-time since January 7 and I think that’s gone very well. She gets some brain fatigue after a few hours at work and therapy, but that too has been improving. Therapy might be winding down soon as well, she has 2 sessions this coming week and will probably transition to once every couple of weeks after that.
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Rebranding CV to HAT with Pagefind
Today I’m rebranding the Tama-Toledo Community Visioning (CV) site to Hometown Action Team (HAT) and adding Pagefind.
When doing so I get this build error…
Warning: Running in pre-1.0 compatibility mode.
Pagefind 1.0 changes the default output directory from /_pagefind/ to /pagefind/
but references to the /_pagefind/ URL were found on your site, and the output directory is unconfigured.
To preserve your setup, the search files have been written twice, to both /_pagefind/ and /pagefind/
To remove this warning, either update your script and style references to the new /pagefind/ URL
or run Pagefind with --output-subdir _pagefind to ensure pre-1.0 behaviour
2025-Jan-01 at 12:30 PM
Sorry for missing the last few eventful WEEKS, and Happy New Year to all. Lots of folks were asking about Mackenzie in the past few days between holidays, so here’s a brief update…
Mackenzie is doing well and continues to show improvement. The last month has been spent largely in speech and occupational therapy appointments at GRMC, with “homework” therapy assigned for the days in-between. She had only a couple occupational therapy sessions, and one physical therapy, before “graduating” out of those sessions. She has one more speech therapy session tomorrow but I expect we will add more of those for at least the next month or so.
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A Newer Pagefind Enabled Blog!
It’s deja vu all over again. My timeline module doesn’t work with the current rendition of https://blog.SummittDweller.com and I can’t figure out what’s broken. So, I’ve resurrected my old personal blog project and updated with the meager content it was missing. That project has a working timeline but no Pagefind search, yet.
So, how might I ONCE AGAIN approach combining Hugo with Pagefind in the cloud? Well, A Powerful Blog Setup with Hugo and NPM* by Tom Hombergs looked like a promising place to start. The process that Tom advocates leverages a neat little package called hugo-bin.
Continue Reading »DSM and Geocaching
Just dropped Emily and Natilie (2 international Grinnell College students) off at DSM for their holiday travel home. Ivan, our 2024-25 FIS student from Bulgaria, is with me for a geocaching lunch/holiday event at Pizza Ranch. After this a little geocaching then I’ll drop Ivan at DSM for his flight home and I’ll head for home before it gets dark on this shortest day of the year.