{"id":12891,"date":"2016-10-26T15:43:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/every-october-i-get-obsessed-with-a-tech-project\/"},"modified":"2016-12-16T22:28:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T05:28:53","slug":"every-october-i-get-obsessed-with-a-tech-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/every-october-i-get-obsessed-with-a-tech-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Every October, I get obsessed with a Tech Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

All of my domains renew annually or biannually, somewhere in October. RandomWiki and http:\/\/fireflywiki.net<\/a> are the same.<\/p>\n

Changes to backend platforms. New programming projects… I built an online campus\/forum\/archive for my MFA program during one such binge.<\/p>\n

I don't remember what grabbed my attention last year (probably nothing, since I was hip-deep in new house projects – https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+DoyceTesterman\/posts\/NTreF1eetYS<\/a>), but 2014 was a massive project to automate the collection\/archiving of my blog and social media posts as they were created.<\/p>\n

This kind of bug always – always<\/i> bites me right when I'm supposed to be prepping for a big writing project of one kind of another. Always.<\/p>\n

This<\/i> year, I've wandered down the rabbithole of website creation and hosting using a combination of Jekyll (markdown-based blogging platform) and github. It's become a situation where I hit a roadblock, back up, try it from another angle, and hit the same massive barrier from another direction.<\/p>\n

The basic problem is, I'd like to collect the material from both of my main blogs into one unified one, with all the posts stored in markdown\/plaintext, and while Jekyll can do it and Github supports it, the fact that I want to add sixteen years worth of previous blog posts brings the whole thing screeching to a halt – either Github gets mad when I try to put more than a thousand files into the same directory, or Jekyll refuses to build the site when there are so many source files – basically, I can import back to about 2014 (or 2013 if I never write another new post :P) which is roughly 20 to 25% of the stuff I want<\/i> to include.<\/p>\n

(And when that failed, trying to import the same .md files into a fresh install Day One turned out to be a total sandtrap as well.)<\/p>\n

I don't know why it's always October, but there it is. Writing this out so I can at least avoid revisiting the same project in a year.<\/p>\n

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All of my domains renew annually or biannually, somewhere in October. RandomWiki and http:\/\/fireflywiki.net are the same. Changes to backend platforms. New programming projects… I built an online campus\/forum\/archive for my MFA program during one such binge. I don't remember what grabbed my attention last year (probably nothing, since I was hip-deep in new house … <\/p>\n

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