Creating a website from Obsidian
One of the problems with writing in several different places is I forget where I have mentioned things; and occasionally I forget that I didn't even blog about, I talked about it on Mastodon or Bluesky. At any rate, I know that I did mention my MLB The Show 24 franchise tracker, which can be found here: https://franchise.lwgrs.cloud
I also created a site from my "Library" vault, found here: https://library.srgower.com
Originally I wanted to do this with a new 11ty site, which I knew was possible because of some useful Obsidian-based plugins. I ran into problems from the start though, because all of the plugin instructions I found are not updated to 11ty 3.0 I guess, and I couldn't get anything to work - so I just scrapped the project. But I remembered...some people have created plugins for Obsidian that do the job just fine.
Enter: Digital Garden
It was incredibly easy to set up. The documentation walks you through each step, and relies on Github and Vercel. I'd like to be able to use Netlify for this but the easy step-by-step process links to Vercel so I just went with that1. Not a huge deal.
I went through the entire step-by-step documentation and got my first site (the franchise tracker) up and running rather quickly. At first I was going to leave the default Vercel URL, thinking that you had to pay to use a subdomain. So I did a 301 redirect of https://lwgrs.cloud/franchise/ to the Vercel address, and then later I discovered I could just set up https://franchise.lwgrs.cloud - much more preferable. I did the same for my library - https://library.srgower.com.
I also see that Digital Garden uses 11ty as the backbones, so technically I am using 11ty after all. Looking through everything it appears I can change the template as I please, which I may do later on. Probably what I would do is align everything left rather than centre, but I'm not doing that right now.
Next project - figuring out a not-so-tedious method of transcribing box scores from MLB The Show, because in their infinite wisdom they don't export any of that info (not even to a .CSV file!). Actually that's what I thought my friend was asking for at first when he asked to see the scoresheet; I'm not doing those. That seems a bit excessive to do for a video game, but who knows. Maybe I'll do it some day.
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The only reason I prefer Netlify over Vercel is because I already have an account (Netlify) that serves the same purpose as Vercel. I suppose I could clone the github repository and do it all manually, but why reinvent the wheel?↩