2019/NYC/setitandforgetit

Automating Maintenance was a session at IndieWebCamp NYC 2019.

Video: ▶️47:43s

Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/setitandforgetit

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IndieWebCamp NYC 2019
Session: Automating Maintenance
When: 2019-10-05 14:30

Participants

• Greg McVerry
• Rosemary Orchard
• dougbeal
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Notes

• zephyr I need to automate stuff so I publish more
• Rosemary Orchard
  • My SSL certificate renewel is autmated (certbot)
  • Backups of Grav sites are done by cron, as are updates and setting permissions afterwards
  • Updating lots of things have been converted to bash scripts which run with cron jobs
  • POSSE with Twitter is something I'd love to automate
  • PESOS from Swarm is automatic (OwnYourSwarm)

• What do you automate and how
  • header, footer, nav
  • SSG can compile layout
  • People automate templates
  • Post type discovery - https://indieweb.org/post-type-discovery
  • Publishing with a micropub client
  • automate sending links to archive.org
  • geolocation lookups can be automateds
  • date and time published can be automated
  • automating img optimization

See Also

• 2019/NYC/Schedule