Fiddling with a hobby project
Over the last couple of days I've been playing around with my MLB The Show 24 Franchise Tracker. At first it was about trying to update the site template so I could get Bases to start working but I ran into a bunch of roadblocks.
In the process of trying to fix it, I think I broke it even more. I consulted Claude throughout the day yesterday, but it's hard to troubleshoot on a mobile phone1. At some point while I was walking my dog, I decided it would be simpler to nuke the whole thing. I did the following:
- Uninstalled the Digital Garden plugin (I should have checked some of my settings because I forgot some of them...woops);
- Re-deployed a new project on Vercel and created a new GitHub repo;
- Set up Digital Garden in Obsidian again;
- Re-directed my domain (
franchise.lwgrs.cloud) to the new project on Vercel.
So that all worked - the website updates completely from Obsidian again. I need to be more on the ball with updating the site template. But considering the last time I updated the vault was November 2025, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that everything was so out of date that trying to fix it wasn't working.
I then moved on to trying to incorporate Bases into the vault. There are some instances where Bases just won't work, and Dataview is still the answer. However, using a Base to link to the games played in a weekly recap makes a lot more sense than manually typing out the links (which is what I was doing previously). There may be other applications for Bases but I haven't figured those out yet. Plus, as I said, using properties to display information in a table doesn't always make sense.
The next problem presented itself in the form of my rendered tables looking compressed and ugly when loading the site on desktop. I'm not surprised this happened on mobile, but desktop? Come on...it should work! It took a lot of doing but I fixed it with CSS, but the result now is that it looks...off. I have some tweaking left to do but it looks close enough to what I want.
That was all in service of just getting things to work. I spent more time on all of that than actually putting new content (i.e. game logs) into the vault. I meant to do some of that last night but I spent too much time fixing the vault itself.
To backtrack a little bit, one of the things I was doing last night was simplifying the data I was entering in my game logs, to make it faster to log a game. Mostly I did this because I log from mobile most of the time. But I didn't get very far with editing everything from my PC, so I did some of it from my phone before bed. Bad idea, because bulk editing properties etc. from mobile is a pain.
So this morning I copied the game log files to the cloud and edited everything file-by-file and copied them back to my vault. Everything is good to go now, so I should be able to log the games I've played since my last update (which would be 2). I hope to play some more games soon.
Anyway that's it, that's the post.
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