Hugo: No Go (Felicitous Update)
My Hugo experience has been really frustrating. I guess I am not the only one.
(You can skip all the whining and scroll down to where Surge turns out to be a very satisfactory partial solution. --Editor)
With Hugo, I am able to build and serve locally all manner of remarkable sites with ease. It rocks. It rolls. It has an great big and extremely creative community.
But I just cannot seem to deploy these sites, to GitHub Pages or anywhere else.
I have followed these instructions, and variants for deploying to a personal or org page.
I have tested Netflify and Surge and am testing Wercker and Travis and others. I am making a list. I am checking it twice.
I have checked out a couple of deploy scripts as well, including this one for deploying to personal or org pages rather than project pages.
Google Search & Deploy
In the case of Netflify and Surge, the deploy succeeds, but the theme is missing. Just raw HTML, though there are folders and files for CCS, JS and SASS.
When I build the site with hugo --theme=ghostwriter and upload it to my local Web server, same problem.
I should not need to specify the stylesheet as it is in my config.toml
Stylesheets and other elements of style are present in the deployed public/ folder but the theme does not load.
A fellow sufferer suggests removing the .git folder from the themes/ghostwriter folder.
To no effect. I follow the Netflify tutorial and get the no configuration file found error.
12:27:23 PM: Error running command: Build script returned non-zero exit code: 255
I copy the gringolalia folder into one called glossalia, remove the .git folder, create a new project with that name on gringolalia@github and repeat git init and all that stuff.
I really have to stop floundering and draw up a plan of attack. Hugo is a great tool with a wealth of themes to adapt and study, but I need to have time to actually write in these writing spaces I keep setting up for myself.
Ghostwriter in Hugo is not so fantastic that I just have to have it in my portfolio. But I do like it.
I want to write criticism and essays in the genre of Camus and a cheap spy novel about money laundering and Uruguay and Paraguay. I have a thing about Paraguay, this is true. I explain it here, in Portuguese. I have decided to write all my front end development and design notes in Portuguese, for the practice.
Update: Surge and My Urge to Merge
Okay, the second time through the list of third-party deploy options I discover that Surge is the answer to my need to post sites to URLs that I can show to clients.
Surge totally rocks. npm install --global surge and then just plain surge in your project directory.
Prompts you for the folder to push and the subdomain and bazunga!
What is their business model, I wonder?
But this solution does not let me clone and push from a clone repo another computer, like the one in the Cancer Ward (Раковый Корпус). So I cannot push things like theme changes with version control. Handy to be able to check out your homework during your rehab down time, even if the Window XP machine — you heard right — is agonizingly slow.
Prose.io is one way to work from remote locations: Brazilian LAN houses or a laptop in a café or a chic padaria with WiFi or such like. But then you get those problems when you git pull. I really need to study git more systematically.
Is there any online courseware on this subject?
Forking to bretonio …
I audited a great Coursera course last year on social network analysis and visualization with Gephi.
I was running my own crawls using WIRE, churning the data in Pajek, and visualizing the results.
A big waste of my potentially productive — money-earning --time, but I enjoyed it a lot. One of these days I will look into link analysis with Nutch, but for the time being I am busy enough with rehab, writing and studying the fabrication of sites.
