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A Pagefind Problem?  3 min read   May 10, 2023   |  Updated: Jun 26, 2023 10:04
Not Just a Pagefind Issue Take note of the question mark at the end of the title, otherwise it could be somewhat misleading. This is not really a problem with Pagefind or Hugo, but one with cloud deployment of static apps, particularly as an Azure Static Web App or DigitalOcean static site. The Nutshell As you may know from post 143, I have successfully installed and configured Pagefind in Rootstalk, but thus far it only works locally. When I try to deploy Pagefind to the cloud, specifically as an Azure Static Web App, I can’t make it work because there’s no apparent way to invoke the necessary npx pagefind. ...
Significant Rootstalk Retooling  3 min read   May 8, 2023
Critical Info The changes outlined in this post introduce a new theme, Lightbi, for Rootstalk, as well as a new project repository and dev deployment of the site as an Azure Static Web App. Those critical details are: Project Repository - https://github.com/Digital-Grinnell/rootstalk-with-lightbi. This new repo effectively replaces https://github.com/Digital-Grinnell/rootstalk which is being archived. Development Deployment - https://victorious-ground-0e1427110.3.azurestaticapps.net/ is the new deployment from the main branch of https://github.com/Digital-Grinnell/rootstalk-with-lightbi. Also… To reduce costs I’ve already eliminated the old deployment of the old main branch to https://icy-tree-020380010. ...
Rootstalk Updates  2 min read   Mar 17, 2023
Concerning DigitalOcean I took steps yesterday to push an update of Rootstalk to our production “starter” project on DigitalOcean (DO), and my intent was to make this the last such deployment on DO. I had been thinking for sometime about moving Rootstalk production to Azure App Service where Rootstalk is currently developed. However, after moving my “personal” digital@Grinnell.edu Azure account to “pay-as-you-go” status, the projected monthly cost of services shot up from less than $1/month (mostly for object storage) to something closer to $10 or $15/month. ...
Gating My Content & More - Parts 3 and 4  7 min read   Feb 18, 2023   |  Updated: Mar 23, 2023 17:28
See Gating My Content & More - Parts 1 and 2 for prerequsite and background info. Introducing Wieting Content Part 3 of this process, the introduction of Wieting Theatre Guild content, is described in the project repo’s README.md file. Since the project is in a private repo I’ll include the pertinent parts here from this gist. Part 4 - Protecting Pages with StatiCrypt CLI + More Let’s jump in with StatiCrypt CLI. The following experience is from the README.md file in my https://github. ...
Adding a Custom 404 Page in Hugo  7 min read   Feb 16, 2023   |  Updated: Feb 21, 2023 10:39
The task du jour is to begin, and perhaps complete, the process of adding a custom 404 page to Rootstalk. Thus far I’ve found a couple of promising resources to guide the effort: Custom 404 Page Custom 404 pages in Hugo done right In particular, I’m focusing on “Option 2” in the “…done right” document, and the “Azure Static Web App” portion of the first document. Need a New Azure API Key? Early in this journey I found that I could not deploy changes to https://thankful-flower-0a2308810. ...
Gating My Content & More - Parts 1 and 2  9 min read   Feb 6, 2023   |  Updated: Feb 9, 2023 11:44
A Blended Approach It’s a new month, February 2023 that is, and this the first part of follow-up to last month’s post in my personal blog, namely Gating My Content. Now, rather than trying to “gate” some of the content in the Wieting Theatre website, I’m going to start a new site, with characteristics listed below, and include only the protected portion of the Wieting’s content. I call this a “blended” approach because it will, at least initially, leverage and blend guidance and elements from many of the resources I’ve captured at https://www. ...
Creating Better Documentation  7 min read   Feb 4, 2023
We Need More Cow Bell Screen Capture! On a recent project I found myself following some development guidance provided in Deploying an 11ty Site to Azure Static Web Apps and I really like the work that squalrus did here because there’s a nice mix of screen capture images and descriptive text. I think my documentation, at least in the past, has been lacking in images. Time to fix that. Command - Shift - 5 On my Mac I frequently use the command - shift - 5 key sequence to launch dynamic – think movie, not image – screen capture. ...
Migrating CATPAW Development to Azure  4 min read   Jan 11, 2023   |  Updated: Jan 12, 2023 18:45
Portions of this post build on concepts introduced in Managing Azure. CATPAW - Computer-Aided Thinking, Primarily about Writing From the CATPAW home screen… In many ways, CATPAW is an online book about writing style–a guide to the choices we make in writing that connect us to our readers. Rather than setting out rules to follow, CATPAW will help you make informed choices in context. The site accomplishes that goal in three ways: It explains the choices writers face. It uses computational tools to help you examine your own writing, letting you see what choices you have already made and what you might want to do differently. ...
Managing Azure  6 min read   Oct 19, 2022
For the past couple years I/we have been experimenting with moving digital content to Azure, both for storage and as a web app host. The most prominent case is with regard to Rootstalk where Azure currently supports two (recently down from three) static development apps as well as a storage account. All such services are part of a personal* Azure subscription opened under the digital@grinnell.edu email address. *I call this a “personal” account because charges for it are currently billed to my own credit card, a situation that will need to be changed sometime relatively soon. ...
Moving Static Sites to Azure  5 min read   Sep 13, 2021   |  Updated: Sep 15, 2021 08:11   Superseded by posts/112-moving-static-sites-to-github-pages
On Thursday, September 9, 2021, I discovered that Azure, Microsoft’s offering of host/cloud services for Open Source developers, and a favored partner of Grinnell’s IT department, had come up with a Static Web App deployment scheme that allegedly would rival what I’ve been using at DigitalOcean. So, I first tried to migrate my very simple Static Landing Page Hugo static site to a new home on Azure. The process wasn’t quite as slick and easy as at DigitalOcean, but Azure does nicely leverage GitHub Actions, and the process wasn’t too difficult to grasp. ...