So far, the emphasis has been on managing active projects, but what happens with a project when its active development phase is over? It either goes on stage, or into a box.
Project: Websmith Plumbing
Project WebSmith is about more than just creating a website. It’s about creating a “thought-sharing” extension to the system I use for keeping my personal notes. Whether it’s ideas for a project, progress notes, book reviews, thoughts about social issues, whatever. I keep all of that in one place. And now I want to be able to share selected entries automatically. So the project name “websmith,” isn’t only about the worldwide web - or also refers to my own personal web of ideas, projects, and communications. (I’ll leave the origin of the “smith” part as an exercise for the reader. :-)
The primary interface for this system is my personal wiki, which I’ve been using in one form or another for almost 20 years. For the last 5, it has resided in Obsidian, which I access almost exclusively through my Android phone, although I also use vim when I’m working on a computer that has a keyboard.
The public-facing side of all this is being driven by Hugo, which takes any notes I’ve flagged for public consumption and builds my new website from them. If you’re reading this and you aren’t me, chances are high that you’re viewing the results of that pipeline now. :-)
This project stream will be about my adventures shoe-horning Hugo into my existing Obsidian workflow.
Project Log Entries
Changing Horses
After spending half a day diving deeper into Nikola’s theme engine and the archive of available themes, I’ve had second thoughts about hitching my cart to the Nikola pony. It’s perfectly functional, but to get anything close to the layout I’m aiming for, I would have to build an awful lot of the front end myself. For both the desktop and mobile contexts. And if I’m being honest, I don’t have much interest in that particular adventure. I’d rather adapt something that’s already close. So here I go, back into the static site generator dating market.
Some Horses Are Unridable
The whole point of Web UI themes, IMO, is to save the casual user from having to write their own. And after spending the afternoon customizing the Lightbi theme, I’ve realized that it’s nice, but not close enough. Yes, I could get it to work, but I don’t want to work that hard - not on web skinning - so I went shopping for a new horse. Again…