Work done on Scarlet Horizons on Saturday 30 December 2023

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I did quite a bit of work on the Scarlet Horizons related part of my website this afternoon and evening.

I reviewed Gursk Spiritspeaker's vision so that I'll keep it top of mind as Aury and Mattie continue their Barrowmaze incursions.

I've started working on a section of the website to hold information related to the forces, factions, powers, and personae that are the movers and the shakers in my Scarlet Horizons setting.

Additionally, I updated the webpage for the regional subsector map, Southeastern Stigrix, so that it now has hotspots that link to a local map — helpful for my solo characters campaign — and it shows the relationship of the Slaytonthorpe area within the larger region.

Website encapsulation into an executable

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There are a couple of different ways (that I know about) to encapsulate a website (or just a subdirectory?) into an executable. There is Web2Executable and Nativefier via nodejs.

I'm basically only noting these here on the chance that someday I may do actual work with Squiffy or Twine.

I've cached a copy of Web2Executable on my Box.com account and here on my pcloud account.

Local website server ZWAMP

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Today I made the decision to henceforth store my website locally. I chose to run it atop ZWAMP, a micro-alternative to a LAMP stack that only has about a 405 Kb footprint on disk, and uses around 100 Kb of RAM. Now that's micro!

Installed it and got Flatpress CMS running quickly on my laptop. Getting it working on my desktop PC at home required me to first disable IIS in Windows 10 Program and Features, so that ZWAMP's Apache service would run. So, now I have practically unlimited storage space for my blog, and I can mirror it across multiple PCs and removable media.

My backup scheme is to stop ZWAMP temporarily, then archive it and the contents of its subfolders (note: web houses your website/blog) in .zip format, which I upload to my NAS, Mega, pCloud, etc.

I'll use my laptop as my day-to-day machine for website maintenance, and do regular syncs to my desktop machine and one or more removable and remote media repositories.

I'll have a rather more static online website, located — at the time of this writing — here.