Musings of an aging computer nerd hitting 0x32
Advent of Code 2024
Nearing the time for Advent of Code 2024 thinking of using Node NPM again this year.
Hopefully will complete more this year than before.
Cascading Updates
Having been a bit lazy in not updating my Hugo version since I started which was recently breaking one of my Github actions, I decided do do that.
This lead to an cascading update cycle.
- Updating Hugo version broke the theme I was using.
- Updating the theme broke the Tweet shortcode, no longer on Twitter so edited those post which referenced my old Twitter account.
- Updating the Hugo version, broke the Github Action which was building and uploaded to S3. This was due to newer versions of Hugo now having an “extended” and “with_deploy” versions.
- Raised a PR against the Github action to update to use the “with_deploy” version.
Still a couple of deprecated warning and fixing background and social icon links to sort out but at least now running against the latest version of Hugo.
Node JS Jokebot
Learning Node JS
I’ve started playing about with Node JS to learn it enough to modify some legacy Lambda code.
One of the tasks I set myself was to write a Joke bot for Mastodon, which work out to be fairly easy with a couple of packages got and masto.
Dad Joke Bot the code is only 32 lines long, looking to expand it to be able to post images as well.
Python icecream debug
Icecream Debug
Do you ever use print() or log() to debug your code? Of course you do. IceCream, or ic for short, makes print debugging a little sweeter.
ic() is like print(), but better.
