Thanks to Bill Glover, I was able to rebuild my photo gallery. Similar to how I built this earlier in wordpress, all I’m doing is mimicking an archive page but with just the images. Took me a bit to figure out that the with function breaks the context and I had to dynamically reassign the permalink. With that sorted, this page should auto-update whenever I publish posts. Yay!
Spent most of this morning at the Basilica de Guadalupe. This photo does not do enough justice to how much this old church is actually falling apart.
Open notes with a running list of things I’m working on for this site. DEC 2024 Build roadmap for Garmin posts migration Fetch activity summaries over as an archive Build a yearly summary per activity Add webmentions to the site. Thanks, Hugo! Tweak CSS to display webmentions properly. Maybe explore this. Maybe explore setting up an interactions content type like Jessica Fix syndication issues Limit RSS Feed fetch to just 5 recent posts Make FrontMatter updates Camelcase proof Consolidate into just one GO script Figure out how to fetch synd links for micro posts without embed links Consolidate categories Convert old tweets to a summary page on this portal Merge old instagram posts to the photos page. Maybe add some pagination to the micro page NOV 2024 Used lonekorean’s fantastic wordpress-export-to-markdown tool to convert WP xml to markdown learned that the hugo server and hugo build serve different purposes Setup aliases on NUC and Thinkpond to quickly build and publish. Moved the actual publishing workflow to the Thinkpond and retained the main static site on the NUC. Fixed permalinks to prevent link rot, almost? Fixed RSS feed issues For posts tagged as micro set the title to just date+time so that micro.blog picks it up as a note and not display the title. Migrate older posts as deemed fit Build a proper archive page. Made some decent progress, thanks to D’Arcy Norman’s, pointers here . Build a proper photo gallery
That didn’t last long. Moved over to Hugo from WriteFreely for a bit more flexibility. This site is going through some major overhaul. Slowly and recklessly.
Being overseas and not having access to firecrackers, this festival is just not what it used to be. I wish I could go back to those days when we would try and wake up before Kitta mama would burst his 1000 wala before the break of dawn. Days when you yearn to wear those new set of clothes - The only time of the year when you get new clothes and not hand-me-downs. Days when you make a TON of sweets and savories to share with family and friends. Days when you would hop into people’s houses uninvited to see what special delicacy they’ve made. Days when every single house is lit up and the smoke of firecrackers permeate everything. Such good memories…. ...
Since 2007, WordPress has been home to most of my digital presence. Sometime last week one of the plugins – Wordfence, I think – took a major dump and nuked my site down. Didn’t quite see that coming but I take that as a sign for me to change things up a bit. I’ve been wanting to test out WriteFreely for a while now and this might be just about the right opportunity. I’m not quite suew how I want to handle the migration. For now though, it’s a brand new shiny slate. ...
Took a couple days off work for a short break. M flagged a quick trip to the Tula ruins. Just about a couple hours from the city, these ruins were a nice quick visit. There was barely anybody out here as opposed to the crowds at the Teotihuacán pyramids. On the way back we did a quick stop in Tepozotlan for brunch. Once back in the city, S wanted to roller blade and we head to Parque Americana for some good wheel time. I’m so glad we got these rollers! I’m definitely getting better at it. ...
Took the bike out for a spin right after the CLO trick or treat. Reforma and parts of Centro Historico were closed out for the monthly night ride and this one coincided with Dia de muertos. Quite a few people showed up and most of the route was a huge bicycle jam. Nevertheless some good time out on the roads in the nippy weather. Clocked around 11 miles. ...
Spent a good few hours out in the woods along with the girl scouts. M is not a leader this year so we took a step back and had a great time just enjoying the outdoors. S had a slow start and was heavily resisting for the first hour or so. She suddenly flipped once we reached the mid point and didn’t want to stop! She clocked around 5.2 miles in 3 hours and this would be one of her longest hikes in quite some time now! Super proud and she did earn her ramen! ...
Back from a week long trip from Matamoros. It felt much safer this trip with a significant lack of federales presence. Until last Saturday. Locals were getting ransom calls from the cartel and we decided to operate from Brownsville instead. Otherwise a pretty uneventful yet productive trip. Had to wait for a good thirty minutes for the bus to shuttle us to the terminal. Not complaining one bit though. There’s a mild nip in the air. Feels SO GOOD to be back in this beautiful valley. Izta and Popo are snow capped now. So freaking beautiful. Maybe I should head out for a hike this weekend? ...