Fumbles and stumbles with StatusHat

I finally gave up grappling with Ruby versions, Jekyll versions and containers and stuff. After a pleasant test drive with the Hugo static site generator, I decided to take a big leap and switch over. I also decided to start as barebones as possible, making my own theme as I go. Hopefully I’ll expose myself to lots of fun learning opportunities.

Last post ended on a frustrated note. Arch Linux is on Ruby 3 which Jekyll doesn’t support yet. No rbenv-wrangling would get things work locally. It sucked.

Last time I had a short TODO-list at the end of my post. How many have I managed to tick off?

Time to start doing things properly. Or try to, at least. I followed the guide more closely this time, and did things a tiny bit more slowly. Here’s a walkthrough in 10 steps (You gullible sod… ed.):

This was supposed to be the post where I explained how I successfully changed the site theme to Minimal Mistakes. Alas, I made two big mistakes. First, I didn’t read the theme documentation properly. Second, I didn’t test properly before I merged in the changes. So a lot of things broke, and this post was then supposed to detail why. Well, that didn’t happen either.

So I set up VS Code and Git on the old Windows workstation. It boots faster than I can adjust my chair, so my hope is this will work great as a blorgomat for typing out and publishing in a flash.

I’m trying out a new theme. All the text is huge!

I figured out how to include excerpts of blog posts on the front page/post list. Hopefully, it doesn’t look quite as spartan and sad now.

It’s been slow going for some time. I keep falling down some wiki rabbithole or being distracted by some maybe cool thing to try, and ending up getting nothing done. So I finally managed to focus on just one thing for long enough that I managed to do at least one thing…

Let’s see if we can get this afloat.