Howdy

I am Ian Pringle – a sinner saved by grace, a husband and father. I trade in software development and systems engineering. I am also attempting something that is a mix of homesteading and building a self-reliant community, and serving others through the land I have been blessed by God with.

You can find my latest blog posts here. I have a “digital garden” that I call ”grok” which is currently unpublished due to my recent migration to AstroJS. I’m also trying to review books that I read, just to sort of keep a record of what I’m reading and anything I thought about the book after finishing it, but this also is not available currently, but should be soon.

Recent Updates

Astro Has Failed Again

Just an annoyance with Astro, figuring out paths. I’m not exactly sure who is to blame, but I am blaming Astro anyway :)…
Written on the 20th day of January in the 2023rd year of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
Written on the 8th day of January in the 2023rd year of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Astro Migration Todo

The site works and is in use. It’s looking better and is on a good track. I’ve just recently gotten some kinks out of the Obsidian post creation process. Here is a todo list of what I want to get done still:…
Written on the 8th day of January in the 2023rd year of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Giving Content a Kind

One thing I have been putting some thought into are the “kinds” of content I create and want to create. I have some really short posts that are just brief updates or such. I have medium posts that are a few paragraphs long with a little nugget of value in them. I have long posts that take a while to read and are filled with information. I have other posts still that are not available on the new Astro-based site because I just haven’t gotten there yet.…
Written on the 31st day of December in the 2022nd year of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Design Goals

The site’s be wonderfully devoid of most styling for the last week or two now. I’ve been meditating on what to do and while I have no clue, I have some broad goals I’d like to achieve with the design:…
Written on the 29th day of December in the 2022nd year of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Does prefere-color-scheme Limit Creative Expression?

No.…
Written on the 29th day of December in the 2022nd year of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Moving Away From Astro's Content Collection

Astro has a feature in beta/testing called “content collection”. It’s actually a really nice feature that lets you create “collections” of markdown files, strictly define their frontmatter, and then query that content. I thought this would be a cool thing to use, and it’s pretty neat, but it’s not going to fit with Obsidian because Obsidian lets you organize your files into directories. This is a problem because collections are flat directories, while there can be subdirectories in a collection, they have no hierarchal meaning and all they really do is let you define different parts of your collection (for…
Written on the 28th day of December in the 2022nd year of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
Written on the 23rd day of November in the 2022nd year of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Some Changes

Just wanted to point out that I have removed the ‘loci’ and the ‘projects’ links from the navbar. I am likely going to also remove configs eventually since those are all literate configs and I am no longer using emacs. I have that up still for the time being because it has valuable content. The loci and projects sections had little to no content of value, so I have removed them. The very few pages are still present, however you can only reach them if you have a link, there is no way of getting to them from this blog…
Written on the 21st day of November in the 2022nd year of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Moving The Blog

I did it. This morning I mentioned that I was going to be leaving Emacs land and moving to VS Code and this afternoon I moved the blog over. It was very easy actually. I already had a test Hugo blog running on Neocities.org, so all I had to do was port the few new posts since that effort, and then update my DNS to point to the Neocities site. I suspect that I will eventually be moving from Hugo to Astro, like I had previously mentioned, however this is a great stop-gap and will let me have a blog…
Written on the 16th day of November in the 2022nd year of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ