From a3a7aa31df3ab0c67a033b34d98969e5488f6cff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bill Niblock <bill@theinternetvagabond.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 12:05:30 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Create and style a Now page

---
 _includes/cor_menu.html      |  4 ++
 _layouts/corrupt_now.html    | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 now.md                       | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/styles/corrupt_typog.css |  3 ++
 4 files changed, 148 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 _layouts/corrupt_now.html
 create mode 100644 now.md
diff --git a/_includes/cor_menu.html b/_includes/cor_menu.html
index f8cf900..63f5120 100644
--- a/_includes/cor_menu.html
+++ b/_includes/cor_menu.html
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
 
     <hr />
 
+    <div><a href="{{ site.url }}/now">Life In Progress</a></div>
+
+    <hr />
+
     <section class="h-card">
       <section class="footer_about" id="about">
           <div>The Site</div>
diff --git a/_layouts/corrupt_now.html b/_layouts/corrupt_now.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e498d6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_layouts/corrupt_now.html
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+<head>
+    <title>The Internet Vagabond :: {{ page.tabtitle }}</title>
+    {% feed_meta %}
+    <meta name="description" 
+        content="Rants of a wandering techy, in search of truth, knowledge, and a decent ping." />
+    <meta name="author" content="{{ page.author}}" />
+    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
+    <link rel="canonical" href="{{ site.url}}{{ page.url }}" />
+    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" 
+          href="{{ site.url }}/src/styles/corrupt_layout.css" />
+    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
+          href="{{ site.url }}/src/styles/corrupt_typog.css" />
+    <link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" 
+          href="{{ site.url }}/src/images/favicon.ico" />
+    <link rel="stylesheet"
+          href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fork-awesome@1.2.0/css/fork-awesome.min.css"
+          integrity="sha256-XoaMnoYC5TH6/+ihMEnospgm0J1PM/nioxbOUdnM8HY="
+          crossorigin="anonymous">
+    <script data-goatcounter="https://theinternetvagabond.goatcounter.com/count"
+            async src="{{ site.url }}/src/scripts/goatcounter.js"></script>
+</head>
+<body>
+  <div class="cor_page">
+      <header>
+        <a href="/">
+          <div>
+            <span class="first">T</span>he
+            <span class="first">I</span>nternet
+            <span class="first">V</span>agabond
+          </div>
+        </a>
+      </header>
+      <main>
+          <article>
+              {{ content }}
+              <div class="author_info">
+                {{ page.author }}
+                <a href="https://unlicense.org/"
+                   aria-label="Code dedicated to the public domain under Unlicense">
+                  <span class="fa fa-cc-pd" aria-hidden="true"
+                        title="Code dedicated to the public domain under Unlicense"</span>
+                </a>
+                <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"
+                   aria-label="Published to the public domain under CC0">
+                  <span class="fa fa-cc-zero" aria-hidden="true"
+                        title="Content dedicated to the public domain under CC0"</span>
+                </a>
+                Last Updated: {{ page.pub }}
+                <br />
+                This is a <a href="https://nownownow.com/about" id="now">Now Page</a>
+                inspired by <a href="https://sive.rs/" id="now">Derek Sivers</a>.
+              </div>
+          </article>
+      </main>
+      {% include cor_menu.html %}
+  </div>
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/now.md b/now.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d58ab62
--- /dev/null
+++ b/now.md
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+---
+  layout: corrupt_now
+  tabtitle: Now
+  author: Bill Niblock
+  pub: 2024-08-19
+---
+
+# Life In Progress, as of {{ page.pub }}
+
+- Learning [Stan Rogers'
+    _Bluenose_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZVpvJsqTMM) on mandolin and voice
+- Building a few games in the [TIC-80 fantasy console](https://tic80.com)
+- Deploying my own ["Pages" server](https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/pages-server/)
+- Building a Forgejo Action for deploying game builds to Itch.io using
+    [butler](https://itch.io/docs/butler/)
+- Building a custom WordPress Docker container that uses SQLite
+- Starting my own business
+
+## Music
+
+Adam and I continue our semi-weekly jam sessions! We've settled on [Stan Rogers'
+_Bluenose_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZVpvJsqTMM) for our first piece. I
+normally pick up lyrics pretty quick, but this song eludes me. We worked on the
+chord progression last week, and I've been actually practicing!
+
+## Game Dev
+
+Still having a blast with [TIC-80](https://tic80.com/). I made a small farming
+experiment game, to learn [Fennel](https://fennel-lang.org)  some more and also
+nail-down some basic design principles. Some of the ideas in that experiment,
+namely generating the map with a loop and `mset` instead of using the built-in
+map designer, gave me some insight for solving my darkness troubles in
+Nightgolf. I'm still wrapping my head around it, but I think this will be a
+solution.
+
+The farming experiment game lives on
+[Itch.io](https://vagabondazulien.itch.io/farm-experiment-1) and the [TIC-80
+Webzone](https://tic80.com/play?cart=3965).
+
+## Tech Dev
+
+[Forgejo](https://forgejo.org/) continues to be rewarding, and I'm looking
+forward to expanding my deployment of it by deploying my own ["Pages"
+server](https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/pages-server/). This will allow me to
+deploy my static sites on my own infrastructure. I'm also working on an "Action"
+for leveraging [butler](https://itch.io/docs/butler/) to publish games I publish
+the source code for from my Forge to Itch.io.
+
+In preparation for both my own use, and my business use, I need to learn more
+about Nextcloud. I'm also working on building a custom WordPress Docker
+container that relies on SQLite instead of MySQL.
+
+Hovering about all this is backups and monitoring, both of which I sprinkle into
+my learning voyage. I'm looking forward to writing up some documentation about
+my implementation.
+
+## Entrepreneurship
+
+I'm happy to report I was accepted into New York's Self-Employment Assistance
+Program, [SEAP](https://dol.ny.gov/SEAP). I will be starting a business offering
+managed online services, such as website design and deployment, personal cloud,
+and email. I would like to offer these services to local small businesses and
+not-for-profits. I think of it as "Silicon Valley experience" at reasonable,
+local prices. I'm excited to dive into the parts I'm not very familiar with,
+namely the business side of things. I have extensive technical experience and
+mastery, but I lack any significant business experience.
+
+## Gaming
+
+I've started a new playthrough of [Darkest
+Dungeon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkest_Dungeon). It's mildly
+frustrating, but mostly fun. I have fun yelling at the game; it's like stress
+relief. I've been generally successful, but the Crimson Court has been very
+rough to me. It is a game about challenges and loss, though, so nothing
+unexpected.
+
+I've continued my play-through of
+[Sundered](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundered), though have put it down for
+a bit. I'm playing it on my Steam Deck using [Lutris](https://lutris.net/), and
+it works very well. Lutris continues to impress me, and I want to try writing an
+installer for a game.
diff --git a/src/styles/corrupt_typog.css b/src/styles/corrupt_typog.css
index efffc10..909218f 100644
--- a/src/styles/corrupt_typog.css
+++ b/src/styles/corrupt_typog.css
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ article .author_info {
     font: 0.8em "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;
     color: darkgrey; letter-spacing: 0.4em;
 }
+article .author_info #now {
+    text-decoration: underline;
+}
 nav {
     font: 1.0em "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;
     color: darkgrey; letter-spacing: 0.6em; line-height: 2.0em;
