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I post regularly on this platform with interesting things I’m doing, but I haven’t written anything in May. There are several reasons for this. First, I’m working hard on trying to figure out what’s next. While Gluino lives on, both Sean and I have decided to work in other directions. We still meet and work on it, but keep Gluino as a secondary interest rather than our primary focus. So I’ve been open to doing anything else. I’ve farmed a bit. I’ve done some work on tiling and learning how to do some construction things. I’ve made some progress on a couple of sewing projects that I plan to talk about. I’ve spent a bunch of time with my wonderful dog. I’ve visited family and did the challenging task of prepping and selling the van. Oh, and recently, I had to replace all the tires on my car because one of them had popped. ...

This is the fifth post about putting dynamic forms on a static Hugo site. Please see the previous steps to understand where we are: Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 1 Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 2 Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 3 Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 4 Now it is time for SQL and input! Talking about input The plan for input is something like the following. The body of the post request should look like this: ...

This post is about fonts. It’s for you if you care about the nitty-gritty details of how letters are lined out. If not, it’s probably not worth your time. Secretly, I’ve always wanted to be a designer. It’s not that secret because I’ll tell anyone. The truth is that technology is not helpful unless it is easy to use. To that end, I’m a font nerd. I’m currently reading Comic Sans, a book about a font people love to hate. I’m also a member of the Secret Type Club, run by the famous Dan Cederholm of SimpleBits. ...

Previous posts: Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 1 Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 2 Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 3 The saga of the web forms continues. Last, we left our intrepid project and were dealing with an issue with the self-signed certificate for our database. After poking around TLS, one of my brilliant friends sent me the following links: For postgres - https://github.com/porsager/postgres#ssl For pg - https://node-postgres.com/features/ssl#self-signed-cert To use the pg library we would use the second one. The issue is that I only have the self-signed certificate. ...

Previous posts: Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 1 Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 2 The next step in the process is writing the serverless function on the Digital Ocean App Platform to connect to the database. Warning: this post will not be a happy one. I’m in the middle of figuring out the best way to do this, but I’ve learned some things, and so I decided to share them. ...