Creating this blog

To start lets go over how I created this blog.

I had previously ben interested in cloudflare workers and using github. I had already looked _link. and added the source and posted a single post. It's been a while though. How or what I did escapes me. I need to determine how to use it.

After looking over some videoes and docs for python and I managed to clone the project to my local pc. Progress, then I realized I needed to test locally and not always relie on pushing the code to github all the time, ugh! So I already have python installed but I work in linux and windows world. Not to worry, I can create the python enviroment on windows.

After reviewing the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPEUhfTZswc, and realizing all the commands are mac or Unix and a few google searchs, I was able to config the python enviorment.

https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/legacy/userguide.html

virtualenv d:\homelab_docs d:\homelab_scripts\activate pip install -r requirements.txt

Error oh boy, need to do more

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/

download download download

Still getting an error, so to google. Says to install a package, seems legit.

After install, doesn't seem legit, checked the documentation for the app.

https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/plugins/requirements/image-processing/#cairo-library-was-not-found-windows

Answer is of course, windows. After adding to the system path C:\msys64\ucrt64\bin

Site now loading... wait where are my test posts....

Looked at the documentation https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/plugins/blog/

Everything is in the root folder, not the docs folder....

But then all of a sudden, it's all working. I need a reward for all my hard work. Everything is working now!!!

Time to get this thing organized tomorrow!!!