4 years ago, a friend (Saul), kindly helped me put a basic static site on my domain, lettervalue.com.
At the time, I didn’t write anything down about how we did it! So by this point, I don’t remember anything about how it strung together.
My goal for today/this blog post is to reverse engineer how that was set up so I will have more success updating it in the future and I might actually understand it.
A github repo
A project on Netlify
free ssl cert - through let’s encrypt set up by Netlify for me (let’s encrypt does not seem to have a login page)
DNS settings through my registrar, porkbun
The html and css and images live in the github repo.
The Netlify project configuration has a “Build & deploy” section, under the “Repository” I connect up to my github repo.
Under “Build & deploy” -> “Build settings” has a “Build status” where “Active builds” is selected.
I guess that is what tells it to watch the repo to pick up changes?
Under “Domain management”, there’s a “HTTPS” scetion where the “SSL/TLS certificate” is enabled
Bake at 350 degrees, for about 10 minutes. I line the pan with parchemnt paper and I use a cookie scoop. They are a bit delicate so let them rest on the pan after baking for about 5 minutes before you transfer to a cooling rack.
I’ve been really pleased with these, and they are my go-to for a party where I want the vegans to be as happy as everyone else.
]]>Original recipe calls for unsweetened chocolate chopped fine in the batter - I use semi sweet chocolate chips.
use a 9”x13” pan for the full recipe
use an 8”x8” pan for the half recipe, or a 9” round cake pan
line the pan with foil and maybe also grease the foil? or use parchment paper? use your best judgement to be able to extract the brownies at the end!
bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes for the full recipe, probably 20-25 for the half recipe (I did 28 minutes this time, edges very done)
]]>I was going to try to compare them in a toot, but I really want a table, so instead you get a blog post.
| feature | lu.ma | gath.io |
|---|---|---|
| creates a public internet page for your event | Y | Y |
| allows link to virtual event | Y | Y |
| only shows link to participants | Y | N |
| obscures link so the video meeting tech is not shown | Y | N |
| allows someone to follow an event group calendar page | Y1 | Y |
| keeps attendee emails private from organizer | N | Y |
| sends an email reminder | Y | N |
| has repeating events | N2 | N |
| can use without creating an account | N3 | Y4 |
I prefer the open source ness of gath.io, and the privacy - I do not want to know your emails
But I do really like the reminder emails from lu.ma, and I think I am correct that it doesn’t just put my zoom link on the open web. (TBF, I have so far not had a Fediverse zoom bomber.)
in order for events to show up on your event group page on lu.ma, you have to make them public which automatically opts them in to being featured by lu.ma - not sure how I feel about that yet. May still be able to opt out of the featuring? ↩
I thought lu.ma had some repeating events, but now I’m not finding them. I think somehow you can do day of month/week, but I couldn’t do “first Sunday of the month” ↩
lu.ma does lightweight accounts based on your email address where they send you a code and you can’t set a password, but they do still require you to do that to sign up for an event. ↩
all the event info is visible publicly on gath.io. Optionally the organizer can allow people to mark themselves as attending, but there’s no need to “mark as attending” to get the event details ↩
This is a half recipe, which is usually plenty for me and mine. It makes 2 very generous servings or 4 small ones
wash rice in chicken broth, let drain 5 minutes. (save both!)
heat butter and olive oil in pan on medium heat. Add rice and cook, stirring frequently until all liquid evaporates and rice is golden (about 5 minutes)
Add garlic and shallot, cook an additonal 1 minute, stirring
Add all but 1/2 cup of broth (scoop 1/2 cup into a measuring cup!)
bring to simmer
stir once, cover
reduce to low
cook for 10 minutes
stir once, shake gently. Add peas if desired
cook about 10 minutes more, until tender
stir in remaining 1/2 c broth
increase heat to high, stir constantly til thick
remove from heat, stir in milk and parmesan
I need a separate writeup because they jam like 6 steps into step 1, and I find it hard to read. plus the proportions are a bit different with cans of beans.
Serves at least 4, takes around 45 minutes including prep
Ingredients
Directions
Make polenta as directed on the package , takes around 10 minutes, so you can make it after the beans get added to the sauce
]]>First I added
picture:
source: “images/fullsize”
output: “assets/images/generated”
suppress_warnings: true
to my _config.yml
I created an images/fullsize dir in my blog root.
I copied a very random picture into images/fullsize
I inserted {% picture inhaler_how_to.jpg --alt Woman sitting with a cat in her lap, the cat is being given an inhaler %} below
The hardest part was learning to escape the liquid template example code.
]]>You need:
Ingredients:
The night before:
in a large bowl that can be tightly covered, mix all ingredients together. I recommend using a large silicon spatula. They will come together into a ragged mass. cover, and ignore for 12-18 hours ish.
The day of:
3 hours before you want fresh bread:
Uncover your boowl of dough. It will have expanded to be a nearly liquidy goop with lots of air bubbles in it. Using plenty of flour, convince the top and edges that they are dryish, and fold the dough a few times. Everytime it’s too sticky, just add more flour to your hands. You should notice lots of air bubbles in the dough, and it should start feeling more like a bread dough, but still a very sticky one. Shape the dough into a nice little round, and then put it back in the bowl and re-cover it.
Set a 90 minute timer.
When the 90 minutes are up, set your oven to 450 degrees, and place the main dish (but not the lid) of a large dutch oven in the actual oven. v Set a 30 minute timer.
When the 30 minutes are up, shape the dough - it will have expanded to be bowl shaped again, but because of the folding you did already, it’s a little less sticky and a little easier to convince that it should be loaf of bread shaped. Again, you will flour your hands a lot, and kind of pick up and fold the dough a few times, then shape it into a nice a round. Ideally you have used enough flour that your hands are not too covered in dough at this point - because it’s time to put on oven mitts, pull the hot dutch oven out, drop the ball of dough in, put the lid on, and then put it back in the oven.
Set another 30 minute timer.
When this 30 minutes is up, remove the lid from the dutch oven. It will be VERY HOT. Find somewhere safe to put it.
Set a 15 minute timer.
When the timer goes off, your bread is done! Turn off the oven, pull the (extremely hot) dutch oven out of the oven, and put it somewhere it can safely cool.
If you want to eat the bread right away, carefully remove the hot boule from the dutch oven and let it cool for at least 5 or 10 minutes. If you’re careful (the bread is still very hot, and will release steam) you can hold it in a towel or oven mitt with one hand when you cut into it.
I prefer to wait a little longer, til the bread is safe to touch. It is fabulous anytime in the next several hours after baking.
I have had success with folding the dough and then covering and popping it into the fridge for 4ish hours. Take it out of the fridge when you’re ready, and pick up the directions at the point where you preheat the dutch oven in the oven for 30 minutes. (That also gives your cold dough 30 minutes to warm up before you shape it.)
yes, you still need an hour and 15 minutes of the oven being on. It’s worth it.
]]>the local version of bundle exec jekyll build creates your _site files with urls all using localhost.
to get it to build with the url specified in _config.yml run
JEKYLL_ENV="production" bundle exec jekyll build
THEN uploading the _site files to your server should work as expected. I hope. :)
In the home directory of my jekyll install (it’s in my Dropbox folder in a blog directory! instant lazy version control) there’s a _posts directory.
to creat a new posts, create a file
YEAR-MONTH-DAY-title.MARKUP
for example, this one is named 2024-07-23-post-about-posting.md
run
bundle exec jekyll build to build the markdown file into the appropriate html files.
You should see a new file appear in _site
run bundle exec jekyll serve to look at your new post locally
Once you’re happy with how the post looks, it’s time to get it off local and up to the real web.
In my case, this means that I put it in filehosting on Fastmail.
From the main Fastmail interface, I click on the File hosting area (in the chooser in the upper left where I can also choose between Calendar and Contacts etc.)
I upload the _site subfolder of my jekyll install, the output of all the build data.
To add a new post and make sure the RSS feed and the tags and everything work, I’m going to do the dumbest thing possible: replace the _site folder on Fastmail with a new copy that contains the new version of the blog.
fun parts:
_site folder.OK the dumb way was very dumb, and took my site down for a bit. It also uploads too many files instead I could
this seems to work. it is tedious, but not impossible.
to simply update a post (like this one) I should be able to:
I should be able to skip the pages folders because which posts appear on which one hasn’t changed. Though if the post is not on the first page, I may wish to upload them to make sure I get the new version of the post excerpt on the page view.
]]>this one's from Bake From Scratch and then lightly modified
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Beat together the 3 eggs and the 3/4 c sugar.
Mix in the olive oil, milk, and flavoring. (Original recipe calls for a mix of vanilla and almond extracts. I don't care for almond really, and I love the fiori here)
Mix in the flour, baking powder, and salt.
Makes one 8 or 9 inch round cake or 12 cupcakes.
Bake the round for 30-33 minutes, the cupcakes for about 19-20 minutes
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