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I spent the morning of the election with my daughter and grandson. It was a nice way to spend part of an otherwise anxiety-filled day.

OK, it’s happening again. Hugo broke my site for the second time in two updates. I got mad (again) and decided it was time for us to break up. I dusted off the version of the blog that I’d built using Eleventy and started working on getting everything updated. Except it didn’t work. I don’t know what I was missing or what had changed since I stopped using it, but things were broken. I then decided that I would start fresh with Eleventy’s base blog repo. That was also a mistake. After several hours, I had built an ugly blog, without some of the features I’d wanted. I gave up. ...

I’ve been back in Doom Emacs for a few days. This is how it’s going.

I am experimenting with using Org-roam again for my notes.

I sure wish Hugo would stop deprecating things. This time it’s site.Social. My theme uses that in a couple of files, and the theme’s author is busy and doesn’t always have time to fix things right away. They now want site.Params.Social so I’ve temporarily fixed the problem myself by editing two files. In twitter_cards.html: {{ with site.Social.twitter -}} # becomes {{ with .Site.Params.Social.twitter -}} And in opengraph.html: {{- with site.Social.facebook_admin }} # becomes {{- with .Site.Params.Social.facebook_admin }} At least now the error is gone and the site builds. I’ll need to keep an eye on the PaperMod repo for a real fix. ...

I’ve added a search page. It uses Pagefind. It turns out I’d already begun work on this with the original site. The clue was a commented-out line in my Makefile: index: npx -y pagefind --site ${SITE_DIR} All I needed to do was create a search page and add a snippet: --- layout: layouts/base.njk title: Search slug: /search --- <link href="/pagefind/pagefind-ui.css" rel="stylesheet"> <script src="/pagefind/pagefind-ui.js"></script> <div id="search"></div> <script> window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', (event) => { new PagefindUI({ element: "#search", showSubResults: true, pageSize: 10, autofocus: true }); }); </script> To manually build the index, I render the site and then index it. using npx -y pagefind --site _site. I do this as part of the deploy recipe in the Makefile. ...

I’m back to using Eleventy for my blog

Latest roll (HP5) from the Leica MP. Nothing much here to speak of, although I did use a manual flash on some of the indoor shots. I kind of like flash photos. They look like photos, you know? Lincoln looking up My dad and Lincoln. Testing manual flash. Funny face White sneakers are white

Listing directories first and hiding file details by default in Dired

I kind of have an actual “wet side” now.

I sewed a drawstring bag

Improving site performance by adding Expires headers in my Caddy config.

OMG I never learn. Even when I write stuff down. Every time I switch back to Hugo, I complain about the fact that when using relative image links in Hugo’s Page Bundles, they don’t work in the RSS feed. Then I spend time digging around old forum posts or whatever trying to fix the problem. Except I already have fixed the problem. At least twice. Maybe just check your own notes, Jack. ...

Making tags readable in Org-mode DONE headings

I’ve updated my org-mode reading list using my fork of the org-books package

This roll of HP5 from the Leica M31 was shot mostly in Grand Haven during one of our frequent walks through town and on the pier. Gail’s feet in Lake Michigan Grandma walking Lincoln Grand Haven Pier Well-dressed kids on beach Beach grass, rocks, and sand Gift store in Grand Haven. Closed. ...

Self-portrait in mirror with Canonet I first decided to sunset the Canonet, in 2022 due to a few issues making it less than ideal to use. I have a short memory, and was feeling badly about the camera sitting on a shelf, so I loaded it up with a roll of HP5. Processing the roll yesterday reminded me why I’d set it aside: ...

I’m finding it difficult being “off” social media right now. Every time there’s a lull in my thoughts, I want to reach for one of my feeds. It’s how I avoid doing anything useful. I want social media to be a source of information and not purely entertainment, but it usually ends up being entertainment. Also, it’s often infuriating, which is why I stepped away in the first place. One thing I’ve noticed is that when I’m not sharing things, I feel kind of invisible. I like sharing things. My blog(s) are good for sharing. It’s what they’re for. But not having comments on the blogs means there’s not much actual engagement. I like engagement :). That’s what Mastodon (and more recently, Micro.blog) is good at, which is why I find it difficult to leave. ...

The new record from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds is called “Wild God” and it’s fantastic. Nick Cave in a good mood is a rare and wonderful thing.

When a horrible billionaire ruins my wonder at the night sky