Looking at my estimated bill for web hosting, trying to work out how low it will go. Nine dollars is an overestimate I think... Last month was $15.21 which was a bit inflated because I was running the old EC2 server, plus experimenting with S3 and Cloudfront and things. The month before was a more normal $11.51. This month so far (a third of the way through) is $3 something, that's how they work out the estimate. BUT that includes EC2 from the beginning of the month too, which is now gone. I don't think it's going to go up much above $3, and I think next month is going to be even lower... NICE!
I have migrated all the old blog posts and things to the new system, 18,000 or so of them crikey!
I have had problems with Metalsmith, found it a bit complicated, but it's going to be good now it's all settled. I had lots of unclear errors but when I roll back I can find what is causing them. A couple of biggies were trying to do something like
date | truncate(15)I understood that to mean "truncate the date to 15 chars" and if I just do {{ date }} it displays as Tue 12 Jun [2018](/wiki/#2018) 00:00:00 etc so that should crop it to just Tue 12 Jun [2018](/wiki/#2018). But NO! date at that point is a date object and it only appears to be a string when it is rendered to the page. If I try and treat it as a string before rendering I get a "oh noes can't get lastIndexOf undefined" or something - no reference back to the template or content I did it in.
Still got gigograph and family tree stuff to import, but there's a lot less of that.
Rebuilding the site is a lot faster with Metalsmith than it was with Jekyll but I haven't found a "only update the content that has recently changed" which I think I want for synchronising content with S3 without replacing the whole lot. I'm sure there's a plugin for it, everything in Metalsmith is javascript plugins, which I like.
Hmm will this post work with all this embedded code? We'll see...
js: Programming language of the web, mostly how I make my living.
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