Up Too Late
01 Apr 2019If You Want to Get to Step X, You Gotta Go Through Step Y
It’s way past bedtime.
I had a challenge at work solving a data transformation issue. I’m still learning the intricacies of JavaScript, so it took me a while.
I was frustrated that it took so long, and I thought that I would document it after dinner on this site. The issue was, in order for me to get that bit of info down, I needed to build out the Grimoire page. On top of that, there was a styling issue that I had where the relative path on an image in the sidebar kept breaking when I navigated to a post in the blog. That had been bugging me.
I fixed the styling issue. It took way too long to figure out such a simple fix. Lesson to myself: look at the output of the terminal running your application. When something weird happens, you might see it there. Then I went through and built out the Grimoire page, added collections, and created the Grimoire layout to style each entry from the collection.
After that, I took quite a while to create my first entry in the Grimoire. I really took my time on that. I’m tired, though, so I didn’t proofread it. So, I’ll push it and follow-up on it tomorrow.
I think I can get four hours of quality sleep now.
To-do
- build out rpg page and collections
- refactor head.html and sidebar.html
- followup with pages in root directory refactor
- decide if they are all going to be markdown or html and stick to it
- clean up format based on previous bullet
- get fonts figured out, including backup websafe fonts
- unset styling on links for all pages
- brainstorm future styling additions