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.

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.

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?

Of course there is!

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.

Here in Brazil, the Senate will start voting on the impeachment charges against President Dilma Rousseff. Ordinarily I would be very interested in following the media blitz surrounding the proceedings on The New World Lusophone Sousaphone. I am after all a trained and licensed Barthesian, though not McLuhanite, interpreter of mass culture.

Lately, however, this sort of thing just makes me nervous.

The coup will be consummated and there is nothing any can doup about it.

What mainly impresses one is how much the Glogo-dominated media has underplayed the story, with the exception of the final day of Rousseff’s testimony, covered closely by dozens of international news sources.

The story plays second fiddle today to coverage of a shooting on a Rio beach involving a Polish tourist, as it played third bassoon the other day to the earthquake in Italy. Umberto Eco (PDF) notes this as one of his ten categories of bias in the Italian media

The Sambodian subliminal message: «All is Quiet on the Political Front.»

The interim government is large and in charge and almost certainly not going anywhere — Globo is already referring to the party of the president as the «opposition» — so go ahead, foreign investor and make your long-term plans. And yes, we plan to privatize like no tomorrow so get your checkbooks ready!

I would normally be in rehab today but I am doing a Huck Finn number. Again.

Today being our rodizio — one day a week when you cannot drive from 9 to 5 on the Sambodian streets — and lacking funds on my *bilhete único — a Sambodian Metro Pass — I resolve to sleep late and then hack GitHub Pages —  I want to make a Pelican site with backdrop —  until our Netflix hour.

For people of a certain age, we are really into The Get Down, which already has a Wikipedia page as extensive as that of Ramon Llull.

But we are not really so old as that. I remember the mainstreaming of Grandmaster Flash and Kurtis Blow and to a lesser extent Afrika Baambataa from freshman in college days, when me and all my friends worked all summer keeping The Space on the air.

My DJ namme was Joey Dharma.

I say again: Urgh!

(I actually attended that groundbreaking musical event.

I even had my picture on the cover of Surfer magazine as a member of the Dead Boys mosh pit.)

And then I get the e-mail notice of build failure.

But hooray! There is advice.

I can either check line by line or simple go back to the original _conf.yml and re-enter my settings more carefully. I think maybe resetting the baseurl to `"/" was the problem.

And perhaps the problem is not with the Jekyll installation after all.

And so off and so forth.

Neuza is actually excited at the prospect of me building her a groovy Web site where she can publish all her fabulous writings.

She sometimes refers to herself as «computer widow» because I spend so much time hacking away at digital windmills, so it is nice to have the vote of confidence.

So I was surprised yesterday when she said she knew what Github was.

I guess I should not have been: she and Sergio Crusco have been working for a client in the Google Brasil family of fantastically advanced little ventures.

Em fim: I think I will try out Pelican for this modest domestic project. And now to walk the cadelas.

I promised a Sambodian psychoanalyst acquaintance of mine I would dar um jeito with his Web site.

What CMS says he is likely using Wix for his current site.

«Stunning». Everything is «stunning» with those Wix people.

«Your stunning blog».

Set all Web design phasers on «stun».

The thing is that Doctor Jungfraud writes and posts a lot of dated articles for newspapers and journals but he is not technically inclined. His Wix site basically works but is ugly as sin.

He says he wants to learn a bit more about managing his own content but finds those Big 5 CMS software packages hard to use. Something like Grav might be useful. You can date your content at will, for example.

And who does not? TikiWiki drives me crazy for example. But there are so many choices

Unfortunately, the sort of drag and drop layout manager and WYSIWYG text editor offered by an in many ways admirable project like Typesetter is not really going to be that much easier for Zé Psychology Major. As they say

Typesetter is sort of the Quark Express of CMS. And Quark is the 1958 Chevy Impala of offline words into typography-on-paper machines.

So maybe Doctor Strangelove will just have to hire me — dirt cheap — to manage his conteúdo for him.

This Sunday afternoon I am focusing on Grav and Typesetter for purposes of my own eventual Web presence.

I am getting the hang of AsciiDoctor now, thank you very much.

All of this is probably a grand waste of what little time I have left on this earth, but between walking the dogs, picking up din-din at the Natureba da Terra, and catching up on Lost — a decade late, what am I, Robinson Crusoe? — I am not really doing much else.

I have Deleuze & Guattari to read — is their notion of «desiring machines» really the inspiration for The Matrix? — and Aluísio Azevedo.

But ai, que preguiça …​