So basically, a post goes from Micro.blog -> A web app on Heroku -> Github -> Netlify. Simple! 😧

I created a small service on Heroku based on this project to publish to my Hugo-generated microblog. It seems to work well even though it’s built for Jekyll. Yay markdown!

Tonight I attended my son’s new meetup for anyone who enjoys the Rubik’s Cube. He brought a ton of cubes!

Talk of the “conference era” ending has me also thinking about CocoaHeads. There is social value but are presentations still valuable? Or is iOS just not cool anymore? Our local CocoaHeads has seen fewer attendees lately, is it time to significantly change it or end it?

I just published a new blog post where I talk about how I automate the process of posting a new blog post, Static Blog Automation.

Static Blog Automation

As I’ve written about in the past this blog is powered by Hugo—a static site generator. That’s great and all but it really limits when I can write posts. Something running Hugo needs to build the site and that output needs to be published somewhere. I’ve done a few things to make this process a more automatic. Writing Posts on my MacBook Pro First of all I needed to make it much easier to create a new post.

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Yesterday I did this LLDB thing to avoid an unnecessary breakpoint that occured on ‘SIGPIPE’. It works great but I keep seeing it updated by Xcode. I don’t need to track updates so I learned a new git trick: git update-index --assume-unchanged <file>.

I’ve had this problem in Xcode where it breaks on SIGPIPE when I disconnect from our WebSocket implementation. Today I learned about this lldb command: pro hand -p true -s false SIGPIPE. Xcode doesn’t load the .lldbinit file so I had to improvise. A shared symbolic break point on our socket connection method did the trick.

Tonight I finished my “@meetup crossover” by completing the second part of my two parter about cross platform development. Part 1 at CocoaHeads October discussed it with Xcode, part 2 was tonight at TriDroid discussed with Android Studio.

I voted today in Durham. It might have been one of the strangest ballots I’ve seen. There was only one decision to make, Raleigh mayor.