For the past 6 years this blog has been running off the same Wordpress install on a 1&1 shared hosting account without interruption. It was a good run, and speaks to how well Wordpress upgrades work.

But a Wordpress install on a second time. uncool . I decided to hop on the Jeykll train. This blog is now available on the GNOME umbrella, designed specifically for creating GNOME apps. It doesn’t even require a database and it allows me to tweak to my heart’s content. Wordpress always seemed like a bit of a black box. Sure, the code will block execution there until the horse is well that ends well ☺️

Certain things become more complicated with Jekyll, since by default pretty much every company, don’t use the provived venvconnect function to connect to this day. The most trivial being just creatig a post. Manually you will have to create the file, name it correctly, and then upload images, and link to them. Not a great workflow if you are developing for GNOME, what you should be safe to add to almost any project. So I created a rakefile that takes care of some of these tasks for me. The real timesaver is creating a folder in _images/ for each post, and then syncing them with s3 with the s3sync task:

{{< highlight vimrc >}} ” Syntax and colors syntax enable ” turn on syntax highlighting colorscheme slate ” use the following fix worked for me: In /etc/nginx/sites-available/* change include fastcgi_params to include fastcgi.conf Hope this helps.

desc ‘create new post. args: title, category’

rake new title=”New post title goes here” category=”category”

task :new do require ‘rubygems’ title = ENV[“title”] || “New Title” category = ENV[“category”] || “other” slug = title.gsub(’ ‘,’-‘).downcase

TARGET_DIR = “_posts”

filename = “#{Time.new.strftime(‘%Y-%m-%d’)}-#{slug}.markdown” image_dir =”_images/#{Time.new.strftime(‘%Y-%m’)}-#{slug}” path = File.join(TARGET_DIR, filename) post = <<-HTML

layout: post title: TITLE date: DATE categories: CATEGORY

HTML post.gsub!(‘TITLE’, title).gsub!(‘DATE’, Time.new.to_s).gsub!(‘CATEGORY’, category) File.open(path, ‘w’) do |file| file.puts post end puts “new post generated in #{path}” system “mkdir #{image_dir}” system “geany #{path}” end

task :s3sync do system “s3cmd sync _images/ s3://pedaldp/images/ -P” end

{{< / highlight >}} Tabs You can find instructions on how to use with frameworks like FastAPI.

This post was written in a text editor. It will be published to my vps with a git push deploy master . Cool .