No more manual config I want to run my droplet with my blog and all my games and silly one-off web apps without ever touching it manually. This would allow me to destroy and rebuild it on a whim, using config as code, CI/CD, etc.. I recently messed around with user access and locked myself out of my droplet. Around the same time, my draft blog stopped updating properly. The update failure is likely a file ownership problem.

set up your access and tools You’ll need python/pip/virtualenv git 1.7.3 or newer (for the hub tool) a GitHub ssh key configured on your GitHub account a GitLab ssh key configured on your GitLab account a GitLab API token the hub tool clone the projects usage export GL_TOKEN='yourtokenhere' export GL_URL='https://gitlab.com' virtualenv -p python3 venv . venv/bin/activate pip install python-gitlab python main.py main.py import os import sys import gitlab import subprocess gl = gitlab.

I’ve been playing a lot of story-adventure-exploration games lately (aka “walking sims”), and they really resonate. I played What Remains of Edith Finch with my daughters this summer when it was just us for the weekend, and we all loved it. It tells the story of Edith’s family in journal/diary format that we experience by walking through the protagonist’s childhood home. As we unlock sections of the house, we collect the stories of each of her family members.