Mecca-Benghazi posted:

I decided that I want to move my personal website (which has a rarely updated blog ) from WordPress to some static pages, so I'm looking into using a static site generator and maybe hosting on GitHub Pages. The obvious answer is to use Jekyll, but I'm leaning towards using Hugo because Ruby on Windows is a headache and a half. Anyone have any thoughts about other static site generators or static site generators in general?

Odette posted:

You could always chuck Ubuntu on a VM, and have full access to all static generators.

Mecca-Benghazi posted:

I decided that I want to move my personal website (which has a rarely updated blog ) from WordPress to some static pages, so I'm looking into using a static site generator and maybe hosting on GitHub Pages. The obvious answer is to use Jekyll, but I'm leaning towards using Hugo because Ruby on Windows is a headache and a half. Anyone have any thoughts about other static site generators or static site generators in general?

v1nce posted:

Lumpy posted:

I love Pelican, which is Python. Only one I've ever used, so I can't compare it to others, but I really like it.

Mecca-Benghazi posted:

Why VirtualBox over Hyper-V, which is built in to Windows?

Mecca-Benghazi posted:

Why VirtualBox over Hyper-V, which is built in to Windows?

quote:

Virtualbox
ubuntu/trusty64 Official Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) builds
12,441,795 downloads | 20160303.0.0 | last release 3 days ago

Hyper-v
hashicorp/precise64 A standard Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit box.
4,790,146 downloads | 1.1.0 | last release 2 years ago

Maluco Marinero posted:

So, Transactional Email Services. One of my clients has had their little Email Marketing program from a non descript company crap out from licensing and now the company is unreachable, so they need something better. They DON'T need anything that manages the contacts, segments them, or anything like that. All they need is a way to add templates, and upload an .xls/csv/whatever with the mail merge variables, and then have all that stuff go out. I could write an integration with Mandrill myself but I ain't got time for that, nor is it something I really would like to build the UI for if someone has already done it way better.

I'm well aware of stuff that supports bulk sending over API, having templates, but not sure which ones support a simple mail merge using an uploaded CSV, and the marketing bullet points make it kinda impenetrable to find out for sure what they mean. Does anyone know of a service that definitely has csv importing to mail merge?

Mecca-Benghazi posted:

I should clarify that I'm completely fine with command line, adding stuff to my PATH, git, etc, and I've already got cygwin added to my PATH (so I can run everything through Powershell ). It's just that Jekyll itself seems to be a particular pain on Windows.

Mecca-Benghazi posted:

Why VirtualBox over Hyper-V, which is built in to Windows?

caiman posted:

I got inspired and put this together: A Complete Guide to CSS Grid Layout. Perhaps some of you may find it useful.

caiman posted:

I got inspired and put this together: A Complete Guide to CSS Grid Layout. Perhaps some of you may find it useful.

v1nce posted:

Aside from the great guide, I'm loving the idea of collapsing the introduction and terminology portions of the article, so you can just start reading about the tech. Ace.

Diabolik900 posted:

I can't seem to expand the collapsed sections on mobile though.

caiman posted:

Hmm. What device and browser are you using?

Diabolik900 posted:

iPhone 6s+ Safari.

Diabolik900 posted:

iPhone 6s+ Safari.

caiman posted:

Would you mind please checking it again? I've taken v1nce's suggestion.

Diabolik900 posted:

Works now! Thanks.

Anmitzcuaca posted:

unfortunately because it has the !important declaration it will be harder than normal to override, any other rule that targets the width will also need to have important, and you would want to make sure that your rule to override it is loaded after the css from the CDN. If your stylesheet from the CDN is loaded in the head, it might be best to inline your override on the element.

Data Graham posted:

Ffffuuuu, up until just now I assumed "!important" meant "not important", and never bothered trying to use it (because it's not important)

caiman posted:

Is the iPhone version of Safari identical to the iPad version? I'm thinking about buying an Apple device for site testing and I'm leaning towards an iPad.

kedo posted:

If you have a Mac, Xcode comes with a device simulator and costs $0.

caiman posted:

I don't.

caiman posted:

Is the iPhone version of Safari identical to the iPad version? I'm thinking about buying an Apple device for site testing and I'm leaning towards an iPad.

The Merkinman posted:

I have been trying to use localstorage (or sessionstorage) to store the contents of a JSON and no matter what I look up or try it doesn't return anything, or maybe null, or maybe undefined

I just want to run a function that uses a JSON object, first checks if it's localstorage, if it is, great, use it, if not go to the url via .ajax and save it, then use it, yes I know I need to stringify the contents.

spacebard posted:

Are you in private browsing mode? I think that disables local (or maybe session storage). Some devices also limit how much you can store.

Munkeymon posted:

IIRC you don't have to be in Incognito or equivalent because some privacy options kill localstorage, too. Disabling third party cookies in Chrome will, I think.

Oh and every browser will disable it differently, so that's fun.

The Merkinman posted:

Things came up and I wasn't able to work on it.

I tried switching to sessionStorage since that should still be good enough for what I'm trying to accomplish, but it's still not working.
Testing all of your theories about incognito, I hardcoded a value and it works (the commented out line), so I'm guessing it has to do with some failure in terms of my coding for AJAX/scope/closure:

code:

var savedJSONTree = window.sessionStorage.getItem("jsonTree");
console.log("value is: "+savedJSONTree);
if (savedJSONTree == null){
	console.log("getting from server")
	//window.sessionStorage.setItem("jsonTree", "foo");	
	$.getJSON("/json/url", function(data) {
		window.sessionStorage.setItem('jsonTree',JSON.stringify(data));
	})
} else {
	console.log("getting from local")
}
savedJSONTree = window.sessionStorage.getItem("jsonTree");
console.log("value is: "+savedJSONTree);

The Merkinman posted:

Things came up and I wasn't able to work on it.

I tried switching to sessionStorage since that should still be good enough for what I'm trying to accomplish, but it's still not working.
Testing all of your theories about incognito, I hardcoded a value and it works (the commented out line), so I'm guessing it has to do with some failure in terms of my coding for AJAX/scope/closure:

code:

var savedJSONTree = window.sessionStorage.getItem("jsonTree");
console.log("value is: "+savedJSONTree);
if (savedJSONTree == null){
	console.log("getting from server")
	//window.sessionStorage.setItem("jsonTree", "foo");	
	$.getJSON("/json/url", function(data) {
		window.sessionStorage.setItem('jsonTree',JSON.stringify(data));
	})
} else {
	console.log("getting from local")
}
savedJSONTree = window.sessionStorage.getItem("jsonTree");
console.log("value is: "+savedJSONTree);

nexus6 posted:

Have you tried using a library like localForage?

Skandranon posted:

Edit: Hmmm, their own example does it that way too. Are you sure your AJAX call is succeeding, and you're getting back the data you are expecting?

The Merkinman posted:

No, I might go that route eventually, but I'd hope not to include a whole library for what is now, one thing.

Yes, I use the same $.getJSON successfully elsewhere. I do it on pageload and on click, which is why I wanted to do local/session storage so it doesn't call the server every time.
Moreover, if I do a console.log immediately after setting the variable:

code:

window.sessionStorage.setItem('jsonTree',JSON.stringify(data));
console.log("ajax is: "+JSON.stringify(data))

it does indeed output what I want, but does so after the second "Value is" output.

code:

value is: null
getting from server
value is: null
ajax is: [{good stuff I want in here,[…]

That's why I think it's some scope or closure or asynchronous JavaScript function issue.