Edit: This script has been replaced by https://github.com/cmdr2/github-actions-wizard Wrote a simple utility script for quickly setting up deployments to S3 or Lambda via a GitHub Action. Gist: https://gist.github.com/cmdr2/7261109b0e214942f1c7864024a6daa1 It’ll create the required IAM Role and Policy automatically, and generate a workflow yaml inside your git repository. Run github-deploy-setup inside your git repository.
Finished the blog-agent project for now. The blog is now live, and the code is up at the GitHub project. In summary, it lets me write my notes as text files in Dropbox, and it automatically formats and publishes it as a blog on S3. It runs by triggering an AWS Lambda function via a Dropbox webhook. It’s built purely for a workflow that I’m very used to (writing notes in text files, one file per month, posts separated by two hyphens padded with line breaks). But making this a public project will probably force me to keep things well-documented (so that I can fix things easily, if they break in the future).
Updated the flat_blog generator, and modified the blog-agent to use Dropbox Refresh tokens to get new auth tokens. Also made it auto-generate an index.html, and added styling for the list of posts. The idea is to make it look a bit more like a twitter feed, and less like a list of links. Still not fully there yet.
Published the first version of the Dropbox-based blog that gets mirrored on S3. The GitHub project is live, and still has quite a few bugs and missing pieces. How does it work? It takes the original posts from Dropbox and automatically publishes them in other places (after formatting them). As the author of those notes, the only place I’m concerned about is my Dropbox folder with my text files. But the agent then goes and mirrors the writing in different places automatically, and I never need to think about that process at all.
tl;dr - Today, I fixed a few bugs in Easy Diffusion and Freebird/VR Puppetry. And started building a blog engine that automatically takes my text file blog-posts from Dropbox and publishes them as a static blog on S3. I’ve already been writing a private blog for 10+ years as text files on Dropbox, and like it that way. Fixed a few bugs reported in Easy Diffusion 3.5’s beta. And investigated an issue in VR Puppetry and fixed a separate bug in bl_xr for VR Puppetry and Freebird. And did a bit of support work for Easy Diffusion and Freebird/VR Puppetry.