BathTub Orchestra's Christmas Celebration Today I performed in BathTub Orchestra’s Christmas Celebration. I had a great time playing the flute. Here is a playlist from the night.
Jekyll is fantastic, easy to use, and extensible. However, some Jekyll hosts such as GitHub Pages do not allow people to use custom plugins - and I want category and year pages. But rightly so. Allowing custom plugins would require hosts to allow users to run arbitrary Ruby code on their build servers and possibly create a mess. This problem is solvable, but it’s ultimately simpler to just ban them entirely.
This constrained environment forces you to get creative. On this blog I use the fantastic jekyll-compress-html template which minifies the very post you are reading. I have written by own template to automatically replace standard markdown or HTML images with lazily loaded ones. And finally, I have written a small (it’s only a hundred or so lines ;) ) Makefile to automatically, among other-things, generate year and category pages:
# Find categories and years
CATTARGETS = $(shell grep -h '^categories:' -r _posts/ | awk -F ':' \
'{print $$2}' | tr ' ' '\n' | sed '/^$$/d' | sort | uniq | \
awk '{print "categories/"$$1".html"}')
YEARTARGETS = $(shell find _posts/ -regextype egrep -regex '.*/[0-9]{4}.[^/]*' \
-printf '%P\n' | cut -c-4 | sort | uniq | \
awk '{print "years/"$$1".html"}')
# Generate category pages
cat: cat-clean $(CATTARGETS)
categories/%.html: _templates/category.html
cp $< $@
sed -i 's/#####CATEGORY#####/$*/' $@
# Generate year pages
year: year-clean $(YEARTARGETS)
years/%.html: _templates/year.html
cp $< $@
sed -i 's/#####YEAR#####/$*/' $@
To use, simply create _templates/category.html and a _templates/year.html templates and run make cat year. The code assumes your posts start with the date and they are stored in the default _posts/. When run #####CATEGORY##### and #####YEAR##### will be replaced with the templated value.
I briefly flew to Malaga.
In The Sky. On The Streets
By The Beach and Time To Sleep.
The Next Day and Buried Remains.
Hello There, a Towering Castle.
Inside Are Gardens and a View Of The City.
A View Of The Town
Ugshot. Squirrel? Cats!
Obligatory Photo. Reading Till Dusk. Giraffes.
Watching A Protest. Listening To The Drums.
In The Market
Towering Over. Cramped. Checking Out.
Flying Home, the Question is Where Next?
Tittle-Tattle Town is a game where players travel around a small game board graph, and gossip about other players. Each player has a small deck of identically-backed cards, one for each player, and a crib sheet. Start on your starting tile, and collect two gossip tokens.
On your turn, roll the dice, and move up to that many spaces. If you can move you must move. If you land on an occupied space, you must tattle with one person of your choosing on that space.
Tattling: Briefly talk to another player, then secretly choose one of your player cards. Reveal simultaneously. If you…
Not a great photo, still alive. Have an avatar generator.