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My website is at the mercy of a kind soul who donates his time to my cause. What's there mostly works, so I haven't been too worried about it, but there are a couple of site bugs, and I'm waiting on him to get to fixing them. I am not complaining, to be clear. I am grateful for him. But you get what you pay for - he has real billing work to keep him occupied and I'm not going to make him push that aside for lil old me and my pet projects.
So that probably means dusting off some basic web dev skills I haven't used in 20 years, only the landscape has changed so much.
The web isn't what it was, and what it is, I don't understand. I've been happy in my little world of embedded coding, with kilobytes of RAM and I/O so slow you can see the bits travel. But it's beautiful, elegant C++ with hard types, and a smart compiler.
I don't really want to learn any of this web tech, but I guess I should, if nothing else so I can help maintain my own website.
I wasn't planning on any questions when I started writing this post, but if anyone knows of any good gatsby resources, just to get me going, I'd be happy for them. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I've started using Hugo[^]. It has it's own set of annoyances but learning curve is not too bad.
What I like most is that it builds a static site so I don't have to deal with any back-end or, God forbid, Wordpress. It's just plain HTML/CSS so chances of getting hacked are much smaller.
Mircea
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I'd consider it, but I'm dealing with an existing web already built out with Gatsby.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Sometimes, when you get on the wrong path, it's better to turn around 
My experience with Hugo:
- Get one executable file (hugo.exe) and place it somewhere on the path
- Find a theme. This can take some time because there are a lot of them to choose from. If you don't like your pick, no worries you can change it.
- Get your content as markdown files.
I had a site running in about 3 hours and it's not too shabby [^] (pardon my immodesty )
Mircea
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Nah, there's already two sites running on this VM using gatsby. There are scripts to update and deploy. The backend and frontend are already built out. It's better for me to figure out how to move forward with this than to start over, particularly given some of the rather fancy code[^] that lives on that web.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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web development - shudder. I agree with you. The last time I did web development was helping my wife with her web clients. Our development IDE was Notepad although we moved up to something else that I cannot remember. I think if you keep the site as simple as possible, you should be able to scrape by with a minimal stack of buzzwords.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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The site is already up, so I am dealing with an existing Gatsby codebase.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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btw, https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix/wiki/index.md[^] has a bad link at the top (likely cut/paste error). The first gfx link sends you to UIX and not GFX.
Looking forward to give your code a shot. I seem to have some free time to delve back into the embedded world, and their are some projects I'd like to flesh out.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Thanks. I noticed that today. It's one of the site bugs that needs to be fixed.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Oh and hey, since you checked it out, what's your impression of the UIX docs? This one I tried to go code heavy, and yet keep the docs brief. GFX i took a different approach. I'm hoping this works better for people. Thanks!
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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will let you know. Working an assortment of project issues that just won't die.
I'm looking at 1/2 dozen platforms but delayed by multiple health issues (one of which was me dang near putting my eye out when working in the yard).
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Sorry to hear that! Be safe.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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honey the codewitch wrote: basic web dev skills I haven't used in 20 years, only the landscape has changed so much.
It's probably easier to pick up now than it was 20 years ago.
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React is a bit of a learning curve but used with Redux for state management and TypeScript for strongly typed JavaScript makes web programming enjoyable at times.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I hope this helps you with Gatsby[^]  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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honey the codewitch wrote: if nothing else so I can help maintain my own website.
One problem I can note with that is how often does it change?
If you learn it now, fix it and the next fix is 2 or even 3 years from now will you remember enough of what you learned now for it to make a difference?
Hypothetically of course you could just set up a goal to change it every couple of months just so you know what is going on when something important does come up.
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I have to update it somewhat regularly, as the docs tend to get changed as features get added or I find corrections to make, if nothing else.
Also with my GFX web, it tends to change fairly frequently because I make a lot of feature adds to that project, so the documentation gets updated quite a bit.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Wordle 803 5/6
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Back to normal. That is, keep trying the wrong words!
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Wordle 803 4/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
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🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 803 5/6
⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜
🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 803 4/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
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🟨🟩🟩⬜🟩
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Looks like you and I were kinda trying the same words.
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Noteworthy in stale ingredients? (7)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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holy man around foreigner
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 30-Aug-23 4:24am.
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SALIENT = Noteworthy
anagram of in stale (ingredients anagram indicator)
or
Holy man = S T
Around foreigner ALIEN But I got it from the original clue...
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YAUThursday!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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