The last update to the theme was in Dec 2024, as per the git log

The website looked like this ¹

Then recently, I came across blowfish theme. XeroLinux used it ² (but currently it uses Astro+Tailwind 🤷‍♂️)

So I tried to locally see how my site would look with this theme.

I liked it a lot.

But …

The documentation site is s…l…o…w ³

So slow, that the entire machine comes to stand still if the browser is on the docs page.

I wanted to use webmentions as comments (maybe that is incorrect term, but I wanted to show thes webmentions at the end of each post)

So setup everything correctly.

I have been posting links to my posts on mastodon, like this one

First I tested using Telegraph but I got an error The source document does not have a link to the target URL or domain

Little bit of searching informed me that it must be <a href=..> link. But for some reason the link appears as <meta content='..' (although it is clickable) ¯_(ツ)_/¯

It has been little over 2 years since I forked and updated jnjosh’s internet-weblog theme

While I made several changes to my fork, I never updated the README.

till now that is.

During last few days, I updated the README to match my fork.

These are minor changes, and majority of the README is still from the original (For the things that have not changed)

If you are curious, have a look 😄

Put @microblog.desipenguin.com@web.brid.gy in the search box.

Thanks to Bridgy.fed this site automatically gets it’s own mastodon account.

Following this account is like subscribing to the RSS feed (I think 😄)

Last night when I wanted to check this site, but I started getting security error related to certificate. But it did not say domain expired.

I know Netlify automatically renews the cerificates, so I was confused.

But I was too sleepy to troubleshoot.

This morning, for some reason I checked my other email account which I almost never use except for domain registrar 😄

The Domain has expired email was smiling at me.

After build problems with my PKM site, today I ran into another problem with this site.

What puzzled me was Deploy showed Build step failing but no useful error (other than exit code 2 - which does not help much)

But in the process of debugging, I learnt ¹ about the environment variable NETLIFY_BUILD_DEBUG (set to true when needed) It did not help 😞

I also upgraded hugo version (which is another environment variable) in the process.

TIL that this is an E/N style blog

I didn’t know that it was 😄

E/N stands for Everything and Nothing

The content of this site means everything to the publisher (me) But it may mean nothing to some of the users (at some of the times)

Quoting from the origin site

The website’s author covers a myriad of topics. It’s not narrowly focused. The author writes about everything or at least everything that’s important to the author. The site might contain something useful for anyone who visits.

You know what makes it so easy for many people to just dump their thoughts into a silo like Twitter instead of writing a post on their own site? You don’t have to come up with a title for your post.

Source

This site has two types of posts. The normal ones with title and tags. Other are microposts I wrote about them here

micropost is simply an entry without a title (and tags)

This week I’m travelling for work, and hence carrying only my work laptop. So far all my microblog entries were written from my personal laptop

I have option to clone the repo on my work machine, or not publish anything for this entire week (it is not like I publish every day, still ..)

I prefer not to clone my perosnal repo on work machine, and missing publishing also something I don’t want.

After I switched the theme for this blog, for the longest time I had not noticed that when reader is viewing specific post, they do not see the metadata like title, date etc.

When I noticed, I tried some time debugging, but couldn’t figure out why this was happening. So like a good developer that I am, I created a github issue so that I can fix it later (and not forget it)