Creating that Jeff-to-Nikola translator wasn’t too bad, but I did run into a headache trying to figure out how to structure my shadow files to conform to what Nikola is looking for. I read somewhere that Nikola could be told to search through the content directories recursively and that it happily consumed metadata in YAML format, so that’s what I set up.
Earlier I mentioned that I didn’t have the on-phone search function working yet. What that meant under the hood was that it was working in the lab but that I hadn’t pushed it to my phone to actually try it yet.
I’m trying to keep the web system simple. At the moment, I can write one of these updates in about 3 minutes. It’s a great way to summarize my progress and think through next steps, then push them out to the public stream for anyone who might be following along.