Website Updates

Added Contact and About pages. Expanded navigation bar to include these, my Calendly, and a couple socials.

Ran out of Ghost free trial.

Researched and found PikaPod managed self-hosting would save $21 per month.
Got set up on there, imported all my content & settings.
Purchased huntercarpenter.com thru Namecheap.
Configured DNS per PikaPod instructions.

We're live 🙂

Fixed a bug where secret notes were displayed on the homepage.
Drafted a portfolio piece on my co-op work. Moved the page from Under Development up to Portfolio.

Still have some things to add & revise but it's good enough for now. Link:

It's less of a "case study" than the other portfolio items are. More of an overview which touches on many projects within the interest area of Co-op Organizing. Works better than spotlighting a specific project in this case - might think about restructuring the portfolio to accommodate two kinds of page:

practices like co-op community organizing, filmmaking, or web development (could also call it skills, interests, select experience, whatever)
projects like the Escar-Gogh, the Co-op Rhody website, or Future Histories. (could also call it case studies, portfolio pieces, whatever)

Onward 🙂

Created a catch-all notetaking page for personal use. The page is public but you won't find the link here ;)

Modified routes.yaml so this notes page will look & function the same as this website updates page.

I added four blog posts.

Two are old essays-ish things I never did anything with: The Little Prince and "Power Over" and In Defense of Entropy.

Two are from past email correspondence to the RI Worker Co-ops listserv:

I want things like these on the website to for archival purposes, and to demonstrate some nuts-and-bolts of community organizing.

But I don't know if my blog (as currently structured) is the best format for entries like these. They're a different kind of writing, have a different/specific context relative to other blog posts, are in series with one another, potentially have a different audience/utility, etc.

As I add more excerpts from my organizing archives I may find need to spin off a special section for this kind of content–maybe with timeline.hbs? Though that's reverse chronological by default which feels off...

I added two "under construction" portfolio items.

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Issue found: On the home page's 'Portfolio | Under Construction' section, the View All > button leads to an empty page for some reason.

In previous update Getting Started | Now, I noted a problem with my theme's gallery page.

I tried to set up a Gallery page to lay out my photography but posts aren't displaying properly. I double checked Routes.yaml for any obvious issues but don't see any. Might have to email the theme developer or make a forum post if I can't figure it out, but for now it's toward the bottom of my priority list.

I've resolved the problem.

It turns out it was simple misinterpretation of the setup documents. My theme's instructions read like this:

My interpretation:

Create a post tagged #gallery and add as many photos as you want to the body of the post.

Reality:

Taking a look at the gallery.hbs template, there's a condition that reads

 {{#if feature_image}}

Basically, the gallery page doesn't pull from the body of posts at all. If you create a #gallery post without selecting a featured image for the header, it won't show up on the gallery page at all.

The grid consists of one image per post.

As written yesterday, I published some incomplete portfolio entries. I didn't want to just leave them in drafts. By publishing them, I give visitors a more holistic sense of my interests and experience, even if they can't "read more" yet.

But I didn't like that these posts looked as 'legit' as my finished case studies such as Escar-Gogh | Writing, directing, and animating a short film and Future Histories | Co-founding a literary magazine.

I don't want visitors to click on an unfinished item, see it's got nothing to read, and assume the rest of the portfolio items are the same.

So I added a section to Home & Portfolio for Under Construction portfolio items.

Over the coming weeks I'll be spending a lot of time...

A) adding new placeholder case studies to this new section, &
B) returning to these placeholders to draft content, add visuals, and move them up to the main portfolio once they're ready.

This morning I discovered an issue with my theme's blog template: it's displaying posts that are supposed to be filtered out.

I also wrote a new blog post about the troubleshooting process:

I wonder if the routing issue I encountered on the blog has any connection to the routing issue previously identified with the gallery page not displaying posts tagged #gallery?

Change Log

Altered `routes.yaml` to fix blog filtering issue
Changed post tags in the admin panel accordingly
Wrote a blog post about the troubleshooting process

I added three new portfolio case studies. These are unfinished—I gave them titles, graphics, and pasted a bunch of links into the body for my reference as I write & design each.

To keep this messy content out of sight for page viewers I listed these pages as 'members only.' They'll be unlocked once there's more to see.

I put together a couple portfolio items and a first blog post, focusing on stuff that's long-finished but important to me.

I started on this website last week and finished basic configuration today! I'm having fun. Ghost as a platform is pretty straightforward, and I'm pleased with this theme I'm using.

Change log

upload theme
upload routes.yaml
upload internal tags
upload demo content
config subscription/privacy settings
create basic structure for homepage
create basic content for homepage
set up this 'Change Log' channel at /Now/

Roadblocks:

I tried to set up a Gallery page to lay out my photography but posts aren't displaying properly. I double checked Routes.yaml for any obvious issues but don't see any. Might have to email the theme developer or make a forum post if I can't figure it out, but for now it's toward the bottom of my priority list.

Hello world