Devlog Content Fixes

Terminal

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Set the keybindings for previous/next tab. The UI doesn’t allow setting these keys for some reason.

gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Keybindings:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/keybindings/ next-tab '<Control>Tab'
gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Keybindings:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/keybindings/ prev-tab '<Control><Shift>Tab'

Ahh, that feels so much better.

Entering Special Characters

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Ctrl + Shift + u Type a four digit code Press Enter

→ 2192 ° 00b0 ± 00b1

Infinite Recursion in Hugo Template

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ERROR render of "page" failed: "/home/nmclaren/Code/nielweb/themes/blowfish/layouts/_default/baseof.html:8:4": execute of template failed: template: _default/single.html:8:4: executing "_default/single.html" at <partial "head.html" .>: error calling partial: partial "head.html" timed out after 30s. This is most likely due to infinite recursion. If this is just a slow template, you can try to increase the 'timeout' config setting.
ERROR render of "section" failed: "/home/nmclaren/Code/nielweb/themes/blowfish/layouts/_default/list.html:78:11": execute of template failed: template: _default/list.html:78:11: executing "main" at <partial "article-link/simple.html" .>: error calling partial: partial "article-link/simple.html" timed out after 30s. This is most likely due to infinite recursion. If this is just a slow template, you can try to increase the 'timeout' config setting.
Built in 60083 ms
Error: error building site: render: failed to render pages: render of "page" failed: "/home/nmclaren/Code/nielweb/themes/blowfish/layouts/_default/baseof.html:8:4": execute of template failed: template: _default/single.html:8:4: executing "_default/single.html" at <partial "head.html" .>: error calling partial: partial "head.html" timed out after 30s. This is most likely due to infinite recursion. If this is just a slow template, you can try to increase the 'timeout' config setting.

Huh. What changed?

I’ll try deleting half the content pages and run it again. Then repeat until it works.

Problem content:

• 1705478400-Tentacle-collision-with-surface
• 1706342400-Cyclic-Coordinate-Descent-Not-For-The-Win
• 1706515200-Automating-Contact,-Pull,-Recovery
• 1706601600-Concurrent-Tentacle-Instructions

Okay, it’s not the content itself it’s just the number of entries. Whyyy?

I’ll try base theme.

There’s no base theme but I tried Hyde and it works. The site builds with all content present. Not sure what’s up with Blowfish. Might be a combination of how my content is structured and one of the features from Blowfish. Like, Hyde doesn’t have a search option so something like that?

Tried another theme called stack and getting infinite recursion again. Wonder if it’s worth putting back the date in the titles, I have some duplicates that might be wrecking.

or… maybe I didn’t have Hugo Extended!

Ah well, that was worth a try. Still the same timeouts. I really wonder what it’s choking on.

The reason I wanted to use Stack (or Blowfish) is that it has prev/next links. Hyde runs but doesn’t have those and jumping back and forth to the index sucks.

I tried removing most of the content from the posts. That led to an issue in Stack where just nothing appeared. With Blowfish I was able to run the server and view the site and it looked good except only the first paragraph or two of each post was displayed.

I’m’a try running it with a five-minute timeout. Maybe it just takes long to build.

But probably it’s infinite recursion like the error message says. How the heck? Special characters in my posts? Posts too long? Too many images? Links between posts?

Really doesn’t make sense that it’d need five minutes.

There are a bunch of invalid UTF-8 characters in there. Found using this:

find . -type f -name index.md -printf "\n%p\n" -exec cat {} \;|grep �

Here’s a sample:

� � � � � � � � 2� � � � 0.05� 0.09� 0.85� 1.00� 0.14� 0.80
� � � � � � � � 1� � � � 0.12 -0.04� 0.78� 1.00� 0.17� 0.80
� � � � � � � � 1� � � � 0.28 -0.30� 0.86� 0.72 -0.42� 0.36
� if (y*v2.x > x*v2.y)
� {
� � return anticlockwise;

Some of these are from using plus-minus or degree symbols. Others are copied and pasted from the terminal.

My five-minute run returned. Still a timeout error. Different template, though.

WARN  Module "blowfish" is not compatible with this Hugo version: 0.87.0/0.128.2; run "hugo mod graph" for more information.
Watching for changes in /home/nmclaren/Code/nielweb/{archetypes,assets,content,data,i18n,layouts,static,themes}
Watching for config changes in /home/nmclaren/Code/nielweb/config/_default, /home/nmclaren/Code/nielweb/themes/blowfish/config.toml, /home/nmclaren/Code/nielweb/themes/blowfish/config/_default
Start building sites …
hugo v0.129.0-e85be29867d71e09ce48d293ad9d1f715bc09bb9+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2024-07-17T13:29:16Z VendorInfo=snap:0.129.0

ERROR render of "page" failed: "/home/nmclaren/Code/nielweb/themes/blowfish/layouts/_default/baseof.html:8:4": execute of template failed: template: _default/single.html:8:4: executing "_default/single.html" at <partial "head.html" .>: error calling partial: partial "head.html" timed out after 5m0s. This is most likely due to infinite recursion. If this is just a slow template, you can try to increase the 'timeout' config setting.
Built in 724109 ms
Error: error building site: render: failed to render pages: render of "page" failed: "/home/nmclaren/Code/nielweb/themes/blowfish/layouts/_default/baseof.html:8:4": execute of template failed: template: _default/single.html:8:4: executing "_default/single.html" at <partial "head.html" .>: error calling partial: partial "head.html" timed out after 5m0s. This is most likely due to infinite recursion. If this is just a slow template, you can try to increase the 'timeout' config setting.

By the way, I did check if that blowfish compatibility was an issue but it looks like they just need to update that compatibility check string every time there’s a new release.

• Try disabling stuff in the config, like search.
• Try looking at the listing for baseof.html I could try disabling stuff in

Ooh. Yeah, looks like it might be search. In Blowfish I disabled search functionality and now it builds in an instant and the local site works just fine. Search would be nice but I guess the Googs can do that anyway.

If I had to choose between search and prev/next (which, apparently, I do) then prev/next is more important.

It can’t just be the number of pages because I imagine a lot of sites are bigger. It must be something to do with the content itself.

Oh interesting, I removed the YYYY-MM-DD dates from the titles and I’m getting the recursion error again. Waaat.

Tried again with no dates and recursion error. Tried again with dates and no recursion error. Oof.

Image credit Paul Morgan pauls_travels

What if I just fix the two duplicates? And is it the name of the folder or the title of the page in the frontmatter that counts? → Looks like both, which is kinda surprising.

One-liner since I’m sure doing this a lot.

rm -rf hugo_format/* ; python3 y2hugo.py; rm -rf ~/Code/nielweb/content/devlog/* ; cp -R ./hugo_format/* ~/Code/nielweb/content/devlog/

So search is not the only thing that’s a problem?

For the record, I was able to get hugo server to run with dates in the folder name but not in the frontmatter title. Tried with dates removed from folder names and it bork. Put them back and it’s okay.

Oh boy.

I’m using a git repo now so I can keep track of changes.

Progress Update

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Okay where are we?

Images are working. Featured images are working. Titles don’t have the ugly dates in them. ✓ ✓ ✓

• Remove some of the more useless posts.
• Fix the invalid special characters throughout.
• Fix the huge-mongous text that appears here and there.
• Add an ‘UNREVIEWED’ string to the title so I know which posts I’ve reviewed.
• Remove irrelevant tags.
• Do I want to have swearing on my site?

So which of these are better done with the Python script because once I start manually reviewing these there’s no going back.

• Fix the invalid special characters throughout.
• Fix the huge-mongous text that appears here and there.
• Add an ‘UNREVIEWED’ string to the title so I know which posts I’ve reviewed.

Huge-mongous Text

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I think those are horizontal dividers becoming underlines. Easy fix with the script.

There are also some highlights that are being translated to use == as a delimiter. Don’t need.

Taking Screenshots Using MX Keys

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https://www.reddit.com/r/logitech/comments/sz70ug/screenshot_for_ubuntu_2004_with_mx_keys_keyboard/

Reflecting

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One thing I should’ve asked myself before I started down this path is whether I’m happy to write my dev notes in Markdown. I guess there are lots of Markdown editors available. I just realized that dragging and dropping images into Evernote was definitely more convenient than putting an image in the content folder and typing the image name and all that.

Either way, I’m moving away from Evernote because of the lack of a Linux client. Obsidian’s been great so far.

I noticed a workflow for automagically updating a website based on notes added to Evernote. I’m sure somebody’s figured something out for Obsidian, too.