The Institute for Niftiness and Flexibility

Blog Planning

Thinking about starting to think about whether and what to do with a blog

I should have been posting more. I should have done the #CodeJam. I have a ton of older posts I'd like to bring over from Facebook and from the Institue Discourse. Now that the days are getting longer and it's warmed up, we'll see what the new year brings.

Putting a couple of links in here so I can work on making a blog workflow that's as frictionless as possible.

How I deploy my Eleventy site to Neocities

Building a Personal Internet from Markdown Files

Scrolling back through the last six months of my posts on Facebook, I realized 1) I really should Get My Own Blog instead, because 2) The rediscovery and browsing features on Facebook really stink. I posted about this at the beginning of November and it evaporated from my memory. (Sure, stuff happened, but still.)

Grist, The Spreadsheet That Works Like a Database

Grist for Spreadsheet Users

So I installed the docker image and set up Grist on my machine. It defaults to you@example.com which was bothering me. I should have followed a "Getting Started" tutorial, I guess. I was just working from the GitHub page.

Self-managed Grist

Seems like I will wind up editing the SQLite file to fix it, but that shouldn't be that big of a deal.

https://community.getgrist.com/t/how-to-change-email/2358/2

My first thought was to use Datasette to get at it, but Datasette doesn't do CRUD by default.

So I installed SQLite using winget install SQLite.SQLite.

Updating the logins table as described in the link above didn't do what I expected. I'll have to read more about how to create logins in local instances.

Datasette does have an experimental facility to do CRUD, datasette install datasette-write-ui but since it requires using the alpha channel via pip install datasette==1.0a3 I decided not to do that.

I felt dumb because I forgot Datasette is installed via pip. Instead of, y'know, winget, choco, or scoop. It's so frustrating to have a jillion package managers.

In any event, writing this and spending the afternoon dinking around with Grist was much better than scroling around all afternoon.

This is a very interesting video about the NixOS Linux distribution.

NixOS: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Let's see if the straight embed from YouTube works here?

Alrightly then.