So we had a Docker night to get back to the topic of containerization.

I have wanted to get back to containers as a working topic for a while, but had no good example to work with. Building demo environments are great for covering the basics, but it never gets beyond “Look what we can do” to a practical usage case for the group.

During my search for a useful project, I found a small tutorial on getting an environment up and running using a Docker container, Docker, Hugo, and Asciidoctor to create a website with Asciidoc based posts. Since this is effectively what I wanted to do back when I was using Pelican¹ for the site. It might help solve the lingering things I wanted to work out post conversion as well.

There have been a dearth of posts on here for way too many reasons:

• Renovations
• No free time
• Forget how to get the build environment running
• The list goes on…

The entire list is rather long and boring really, and should not have been allowed to affect the site information. I’ll try doing better with it.

Meanwhile, back in ovSAGE land…

We have been having meetings every month, despite the lack of posts. There were a few retro-compute nights with a simulated Altair 8800 and a CP/M refresher (for those who used it before). All new to those who had not. We even played Zork.

UPDATE: Not so fast…

We did have the room, but we were cautioned that the hvac is not working, so in a fit of sanity, we will go to Tim’s again.

Now that I actually posted that the meeting would be at the local donut shop, I get an email yesterday informing me that we have the room for tomorrow night. The universe is out to prove me wrong :)

Once again, we will not have our normal meeting place. Dymon is still putting the final touches on the boardrooms and we will probably be in a donut shop for the March meeting. On the plus side, I won’t run out of things to drink, but I am getting a little tired of the lack of ability to have a proper talk. I don’t mind the fact that they are not finished yet, but rather the “soon” I keep hearing. I’d prefer they had stated it won’t be ready for 6 months or something like that so I could have made proper plans for a meeting rather than this monthly waiting game.

It seems that my toolchain has survived a couple of weeks without getting broken, so I’m about as close to good as it will get at this time. Things still look good even though there is at least one broken link in the posts. I thought I had gone through them all, but it is difficult to police your own work at times.

No new commentary that I have noticed, so I can guess we get as much readership as always. I have no idea if anyone noticed the dearth of posts or that we are back online again. The bulk of the work is done and I’m leaving the search item as a future fix. I don’t like the couple of indexers I have tried, so I think I’ll leave it for now. It isn’t like there is that much to search.