I need to rebuild my site once again. Perhaps with Laravel. But definitely in line with my love of the indieweb
Tag: My Website
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๐ Journal
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๐ Journal
WordPress is incredible. There’s nothing I’d rather build my online home with. ๐
๐ท๏ธ My Website
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๐ Programming
How I use vimwiki in neovim
This post is currently in-progress, and is more of a brain-dump right now. But I like to share as often as I can otherwise I’d never share anything ๐
Please view the official Vimwiki Github repository for up-to-date details of Vimwiki usage and installation. This page just documents my own processes at the time.
Installation
Add the following to
plugins.lua
use "vimwiki/vimwiki"
Run the following two commands separately in the neovim command line:
:PackerSync :PackerInstall
Close and re-open Neovim.
How I configure Vimwiki
I have 2 separate wikis set up in my Neovim.
One for my personal homepage and one for my commonplace site.
I set these up by adding the following in my dotfiles, at the following position:
$NEOVIM_CONFIG_ROOT/after/plugin/vimwiki.lua
. So for me that would be~/.config/nvim/after/plugin/vimwiki.lua
.You could also put this command inside the config function in your plugins.lua file, where you require the vimwiki plugin. I just tend to put all my plugin-specific settings in their own “after/plugin” files for organisation.
vim.cmd([[ let wiki_1 = {} let wiki_1.path = '~/vimwiki/website/' let wiki_1.html_template = '~/vimwiki/website_html/' let wiki_2 = {} let wiki_2.path = '~/vimwiki/commonplace/' let wiki_2.html_template = '~/vimwiki/commonplace_html/' let g:vimwiki_list = [wiki_1, wiki_2] call vimwiki#vars#init() ]])
The
path
keys tell vimwiki where to plave the rootindex.wiki
file for each wiki you configure.The
html_template
keys tell vimwiki where to place the compiled html files (when running the:VimwikiAll2HTML
command).I keep them separate as I am deploying them to separate domains on my server.
When I want to open and edit my website wiki, I enter
1<leader>ww
.When I want to open and edit my commonplace wiki, I enter
2<leader>ww
.Pressing those key bindings for the first time will ask you if you want the directories creating.
How I use vimwiki
At the moment, my usage is standard to what is described in the Github repository linked at the top of this page.
When I develop any custom workflows I’ll add them here.
Deployment
Setting up a server to deploy to is outside the scope of this post, but hope to write up a quick guide soon.
I run the following command from within vim on one of my wiki index pages, to export that entire wiki to html files:
:VimwikiAll2HTML
I then
SCP
the compiled HTML files to my server. Here is an example scp command that you can modify with your own paths:scp -r ~/vimwiki/website_html/* your_user@your-domain.test:/var/www/website/public_html
For the best deployment experience, I recommend setting up ssh key authentication to your server.
For bonus points I also add a bash / zsh alias to wrap that scp command.
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๐ Journal
The Internet Archive / Wayback Machine (http://web.archive.org/) is absolutely incredible. It has saved most of my old posts and pages. Been spending a week or so rescuing those posts and bringing them back.
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Website under construction
I’ve always believed that people should own and control their own place on the web. That is, if they want to.
I have actively kept a personal website for myself for about 10 years now.
Gosh… 10 years…
In that time I have moved between about 5 different domain names, different focus topics, and different reasoning behind why I want to publish online.
I have finally settled now on this domain that you are now on – davidpeach.me.
I’m also in the process of recovering my old posts that have been thrown by the wayside as I have dicked about changing domain names etc over the years.
A mixture of Twitter archives, manual database backups I have kept, and some new sources I will be incorporating, mean I am finally going to settle down in this place online I am now calling home.
I am also re-implementing aspects of the Indieweb movement for content ownership and communicating that to other websites.
I owe a big thank you to Chris Aldrich too. As it was his website I came across that inspired me to bring my website back to what I have always wanted it to be. Hopefully, thanks to the indieweb helper plugins I have installed, Chris may just get notified on his website and post a reply back — from his website over to mine using the webmention protocol.
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Migrating my website to Statamic
I love Laravel.
I also really like WordPress, for what it is. So when it came to originally putting my personal site together I just wanted to get a simple WordPress site together.
I have attempted to build my own website and blog in Laravel from scratch multiple times over the years. I even stuck with a build for a while but ultimately went back to WordPress.
My issue was only down to the fact that I wanted to write more in my own time and found I spent most my time tinkering.
But I really love Laravel.
So imagine my joy when I came across Statamic. Statamic is a CMS package that can be installed into a Laravel site and just works seamlessly alongside you Laravel code.
I am in the process of rebuilding my personal site and will be getting it live as soon as I can.
I think I will migrate my current site to a new domain, something like “davidpeach.me”, and then use the 4042302 technique to ensure my old posts are still found as I migrate the posts over.
I’m really looking forward to getting creative with Statamic and then layering on all of the excellent Laravel features as a way to learn as much, and refresh my mind, about my favourite framework.
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๐ Journal
Oh golly I just found the back up of my old website with loads and loads of old posts I thought Id lost. ๐
๐ท๏ธ My Website
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๐ Long Form
Setting up my own labs
I’m going to begin setting up my own “labs” area to play around with various web technologies.
For the longest time now I have been holding myself back quite a bit by only really learning technologies around current roles at the time and for my own personal site. This has mainly revolved around Laravel and to a lesser extent WordPress.
Whilst I will continue to love both of those projects, I do want to start pushing myself to learn things that are completely out of my comfort zone.
I will also begin writing more about my learning, discoveries and new things that excite me in web development — something I haven’t done for a long while.
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๐ Notes
If I start rebuilding my website in Laravel yet again, I really need to see it through and commit to it. If the last couple of weeks have taught me anything it’s that I love working with Laravel.
Let’s see how this goes.
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๐ Journal
Finally got my site to use the roots wordpress structure. Composer dependency management and deployment with laravel forge. ๐ค