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.
Trying to keep this one short. My current site theme looks good now, but it ignores most features in the base theme: lightbi. So now it’s time to go to lightbi school and see if I can figure out how to achieve my sketch in a more compliant way.
Observant followers will note that this is much simpler than the previously shared sketch. Mostly because I’ve decided to lean away from visual candy in favor of simplicity and efficiency.
Remember that time I said that setting up a git repo is one of the first signs of life in a coding project? Well one of the next signs is when you’ve learned enough about the tools you’re building to see that you’ve been doing it wrong…
This guy looks happy, and he should, because he’s the newly selected poster boy for the system that will generate new Maranginator game bags. Confused? Me too. Come on inside and let’s figure out what I’m talking about.