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Looking Ahead

One thing I’m trying to pay attention to and to look ahead and build a strategy for is the holidays! I definitely don’t want to end up chained to my computer if I manage to either have family in town for the holidays or go visit people. Vacations have to happen sometime!!!

Not to mention the fact that sometimes life just gets busy…. I did start in this direction back in January and then just didn’t get back to it until September. That won’t work for blog publishing, seo, and adoring fans though.

Jekyll and GitHub Pages

I thought that I was going to be relying on the Jekyll functionality around blog posts coupled with the fact that GitHub pages uses Jekyll as its base. However, I think I’m finding that might not work. I found something from Sangsoo Nam that indicates that there has to be a commit to trigger the page update. Working in deployment/delivery pipelines a lot and thinking about infrastructure as code, I started wondering if GitHub actions would have an easy solution, and when I read through this Jekyll issue and the link at the end that points to netlify I think I have a good shot at figuring out the way forward. I’ll dig a bit on it to find out, but it seems like maybe the default build trigger on GitHub pages might just be commit and if there’s a way to just reference the existing workflow in .github/workflows/main.yml and add a nightly timed trigger then I’d have everything I need.

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