My "project time" this week (when I try to improve something about my business) was spent on investigating how to move from our current blog generating tool, hugo, to @stefano's BSSG.
So far, so good! I'm not quite ready to switch over just yet, but it has been pretty straightforward so far.
I've tweaked the template header, so that I have some fedi bits working the way that I want them.
Now for a bit of css tinkering, so that I can have a minimalist theme with dark mode support...
I'm not sure that I can suppress descriptions on the index page, but I will have a poke around.
I now have a minimal theme, with dark mode support!
It is on a test URL, but if anyone fancies seeing what I'm doing with #BSSG (Bash Static Site Generator), here's where I am so far:
Is your browser set to dark mode?
Yes, if you set your browser to dark mode, it will use the css I've set to respond to dark mode.
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@bencc Thank you - that's me messing up my markdown :)
Fixed.
@neil Is it intentional for it to be full width?
In some ways that makes sense — let the user pick the width they want — but it's really uncommon these days so it looks a bit startling.
> Is it intentional for it to be full width?
No, I am messing about with the css, and causing more problems than I am solving :)
Oh no, what's happening to Eleventy? AI?
I am writing it as I go along.
I have some bits I need to figure out first (like how best to deal with editing the header template).
@neil @stefano I went from Wordpress to Github pages w/ Copilot.
I'm dirty but it's free and I can just use an agent to write a post for me as I provide an agents.md file to outline my writing style: https://github.com/JohnMcLear/blog/blob/main/agents.md#writing--engineering-style
This is an amazing tool - thank you!
"RAM" mode caused quite a lot of errors for me, so I switched to "normal" mode, and that is building fine.
Do you have any plans to add config parameters (to be used in the header template), for
<meta name="fediverse:creator" content="{{fedi-creator}}" />
or
<link rel="me" href="{{fedi_validation_account"/>
?
At the moment, I am adding them to the template without variables, meaning that I'll need multiple instances of BSSG, one per site :)
@neil Interesting! Could you please send me the errors you had when using ram mode? So I can debug them.
Those config parameters are a good idea. I'm adding them to the templates, too - consider that the templates can be overridden per-project, in the project directory - so you can use the same BSSG installation as long as it points to different configurations (generated with ./bssg.sh init )
For example, I'm currently building the https://my-notes.dragas.net (my "reference" blog for bssg testing) with: ./bssg.sh build -f --config /home/stefano/sites/my-notes/config.sh.local --build-mode ram
Thank you for your precious feedback!
> consider that the templates can be overridden per-project, in the project directory
Oooh, thank you. I had not identified this from the documentation, so thank you!
Ah, okay!
I am just going to specify it explicitly in the config file, because that should then cover all bases.
@neil that's strange, but unfortunately the Brew website is currently being targeted by scrapers, DDoS, etc. so, from time to time, some strange problems arise. I need to improve the reverse proxy configuration as the countermeasures are now impacting the normal use of the services. I hate those bots!
Thank you for your patience!
@stefano I completely understand and sympathise.
I got nginx errors when I was submitting the issues yesterday (but I could get that far), whereas today I get
```
09:09:10.984341 [0-0] * HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1)
```
But this is really no deal at all, let alone a big deal, and I am very grateful for your amazing work on BSSG, and making it available to the world :)
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