Countdown To Launch

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2025-04-01 (Mod: 2025-06-09)  |   2 minutes

This pipeline has come a long way since I first started it a week or two ago, and I’ll continue changing things, even after launch, but there’s not quite enough ready yet to go live. What follows is a list of my remaining “must have before launch” features .

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In addition to having enough content to properly test each subsection of the nav and workflow, I also want to have old projects in place so fans won’t get the impression I’ve abandoned their favorite things.

RSS Feeds

  • distinct feed for each project with updates and articles

  • distinct feed for each theme with updates and articles

  • prominent RSS button after each tag under article

Old Projects

  • Separate nav path for old projects

  • Create:

    • FT1, FT2

    • BoD

    • 13A01-04

    • Shiny 1,2

    • Short Stories

    • IODTV

    • Ogg

    • Writing Cartoons

    • SunPucks?

Where Published Books and Games?

  • Add Releases to main nav entry

  • Implement ch-deploy-foo tags

    • foo=attic for archive

    • foo=basement: done but unreleased

    • foo=book/app/game… to create subpages in Releases menu

Content Feeds

  • a place for ongoing posts not related to a project. Maybe just active projects of their own?

    • Decide: Exhibits or Lab?

    • Maranginator

    • Norwegian Word of the Week

    • Ogg vids

  • Blog(s)

    • metafauna theory = proj

    • bread/circuses = proj

    • random thoughts, essays, rants

    • move Hearth into blogs subfolder

Automation

  • Feed stuffer for Maranginator HappySkunk

    • autocreate challenge cards

  • Move automation to Bruticus

    • production of live site

    • dev stays on laptop

  • Push to live host daily at 03:00

Tweaked Nav

  • About/Contact/Policies fold under “Meta” menu

  • All steps of breadcrumbs working

  • Site logo integrated

  • Paginated List Pages

  • integrate project banner in preview cards

  • tags below book covers on index?

  • add showrooms and blogs indexes

  • show drafts on dev? (with DRAFT banner, but not on production)

  • short stories

Incomplete Pages

  • Project Visuals Gallery

  • Project index page (curr and arch’d)

  • Site Visuals Gallery

  • Front Page

  • Tag Cloud

  • Individual Tag Pages

  • 404 and other error pages

    • an ogg vid for 404? Were you looking for me? Um, I kinda thought I was alone.
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Obsidian-fu

2025-04-27 (Mod: 2025-05-27)  |   3 minutes

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Ontology-2.0

2025-04-20 (Mod: 2025-05-27)  |   7 minutes

While trying to integrate the many episodes of CaveTV into the site, I realized that the ontology was getting cramped. It needs to be revised to better distinguish between internal projects, external brand identities, multiple deliverables within a brand, and distinct showrooms.

What follows is the scheme we devised for what the abstractions are, how they should be tagged in Obsidian, and how the files will be managed within Hugo.

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Cutting The Monster Into Pieces

2025-04-13 (Mod: 2025-05-27)  |   4 minutes

Now that I’ve identified a useable hosting candidate, my final test of their service will be to roll out a full implementation of the websmith deployment scheme. But in contemplating how I’m going to do that, I’ve realized that I may not have broken the project into distinct repos properly. So I’m going to figure it out by explaining it to the rubber duck. (Meaning you. :-)

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