Sounds good in theory, until you want to install scikit-image or other Python libraries which need complex builds.

Debian really doesn't like installing different versions of GUI libraries & their dependencies.

I really like Pantheon Files.

I use Pelican for the site and it's working great. :)

Astro is also popular and will be familiar if you've developed with React before as they support JSX templates.

They're between releases right now, but once COSMIC desktop is ready and they release Pop 24.04 I'll probably try it out. More likely that I'm moving to Xubuntu Minimal 24.04 on the daily driver though.

PopOS is great OOTB but I've become attached to rofi and XFCE recently and like the old-school "apps are utilities" style of Linux desktops over PopOS / Mint which try to bundle everything together.

I actually can't remember as it would have been 6+ months ago now. The issue is probably fixed already by the Debian maintainers / Elementary Team / both.

Likely something with Meson build / apt not playing nicely.

Yep - I do it in the scripted version.

The main challenge is dealing with dynamic data in a way that won't mess up merge conflicts. Sort order is the main one and it's pretty bad because a merge conflict will result in multiple tickets with the same sort order. The best way I could think of in the slightly less strict paradigm of the plainban project was to keep a data.yml file for each column which records the sort order of tickets by storing them as a list of uuids and making their name a comment. That way it's very easy to keep track of the order of tickets on merge conflict in a way that's not possible in a central data source like a csv file.

sort_order:
    - abcd # my cool ticket
    - 1234 # another cool ticket
    - ab12 # final ticket

Will change current, less merge-friendly implementation to this when I get to it.

For me, I write notes in Markdown anyways as part of a Zettelkasten, and by setting up my site this way I can stay in my development / note taking environment (nvim) and push stuff up to the site very quickly. It's far easier as a developer to work off-the-cuff with this type of workflow, at least for me.

Also, would be very easy to self-host or move provider if Vercel or any other provider goes down.

This is one of the best compliments I've ever had for an article, thanks so much 😅

Hey - the poster isn't actually the author. That would be me! Thanks for the feedback though. I normally just use Dark Reader for switching theme.

This video is great. I'm on Nix and I wholeheartedly endorse the philosophy behind it, No Boilerplate has been a really big eye opener for me over the last few months.