Category Archives: Blog Development
Miser Project: Hark! Is That a Theory I See Before Me?
2019-11-06 Update: This blog is obsolete and no longer being maintained here. These Miser Project Posts are now maintained and continued at Orcmid’s Lair, the reboot. The authoritative version of this page is now at https://orcmid.blogspot.com/2018/07/miser-project-hark-is-that-theory-i-see.html2019-01-18 Update: Introduce the latest … Continue reading
Returning to the Moon: Fire Suppression
I have relied on RSS feeds for all of my blogs, including this one, and collecting blog posts of others. It was satisfying to enable an RSS feed on the experimental hexo-generated blog now at Spanner Wingnut’s Muddleware Lab. As … Continue reading
Returning to the Moon: Escape Tower Incident
There have been a couple of setbacks in my efforts to restore self-hosted blogging capability. I found a browser/server incompatibility that breaks my brain. And then I had to do a fresh system drive and operating-system reinstall on my main, … Continue reading
Returning to the Moon: Launchpad Security Penetration Exercise
There is an unexpected reward for moving source-code management of my Hexo-generated blogging to git and GitHub. GitHub provides dependency analysis of node.js projects. I receive an automated email about one dependency of my hexo-spanner code. The uglify-js package is … Continue reading
Returning to the Moon: Tracking Network Modernization
John Stevenson has tips on bringing a hexo-authoring folder, and its themes, under Git for source control management. I followed the first of those suggestions, although the GitHub Desktop client made the work much simpler than using Git command-line operations. … Continue reading
Returning to the Moon: Instrumentation Coms Latency Bottlenecks
In the 2017-10-18 post, “So Close, Yet an FTP Too Far?”, Direct Publishing and then Backup and Source-Code Management are identified as critical for proof-of-concept and subsequent refinement into production practices. Direct publishing is now working smoothly, with some scale … Continue reading
Returning to the Moon: Reducing Countdown Holds
The Hexo-generated Spanner Wingnut experimental blog is now much easier to author and to publish. Essential features are operating and a series of “unit test” posts are now underway. Customization is continuing based on unit test results and check-lists for … Continue reading
Returning to the Moon: Guidance Calibration
With images working on the Spanner Wingnut blog, there is now regular posting there. I have begun adapting test pages from the hexo-theme-unit-test source. I don’t use the recommended procedure though. Instead, I have cloned the unit-test repository to its … Continue reading
Returning to the Moon: Over-Tightened Wingnuts
The Spanner Wingnut blog is now being published with Hexo-generated content. That version is the current default. Technically, the Returning to the Moon topic could continue there. that is the appropriate place for preservation of all the findings of my … Continue reading
Returning to the Moon: Viewport Glare Reduction
Continuing to mine advice by John Stevenson, I adapt his changing of banner images to have legible white-on-dark titles with no “white-out” glare. The default banner (shown at Mapping Probe) also takes too much space. File spanner/themes/landscape/source/css/images/banner.jpg is the source … Continue reading
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