Hello, Wrold from Colab

Hello, Wrold, from Google Colab!!

Here is the colab doc for those following along at home).

What?

This is a post composed in Google Colab as a demonstration of feasibility that blog posts can be generated from a colab notebook.

In fact, any ipynb file is fair game - just drop it in to a particular folder and on build, it will be converted to a markdown file, “sanitized” and then available as a normal post on Hugo.

Why?

No reason! “Just because”.

Admittedly, it probably isn’t a great idea to load data from two sources (as raw markdown and also available randomly as python notebooks).

Really, this is mainly a thought experiment. I’ve dabbled in static site generation from python notebooks before and will probably do so again.

On the plus side, composing python related posts got a heck of a lot easier since Python Notebooks can/will provide the ability to add code cells and output “for free”.

Also, it is kinda nice to have a web interface for composing stuff without having to go to terminal. Still, this particular approach is certifiably insane and there are definitely…easier options. Still! This is a fun thought experiment/demo!

How?

A more detailed post to follow shortly but for now:

• Write post in colab
• Use colab’s “save to github” feature to push to the correct repo and sub folder
• Set up github workflow to process .ipynb files
• on save to github, workflow triggers script that used jupytext to convert into markdown and moves to huge content folder
• wait for normal deploy process to take effect
• ???
• profit.

Stay tuned fam, more details to follow.

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