It's been a LONG time since I set this site up. I had high hopes of using it as a dumping ground for whatever I was doing, but it turned out that it was harder to use than I anticipated. Grav is an amazing tool, but it IS exceedingly complicated to get working.

I think, when we set up wordpress and drupal sites, we forget just how much spaghetti is churning away behind the scenes to render the pages the way we like them. But, when I set up this site, I didn't want all my stuff to be locked away in some proprietary database, unable to be migrated, so I used grav instead.

[[https://learn.getgrav.org/17|Grav]] is an amazing piece of code. It reminds me of redmine, a rather finicky but very clever code control system we used to use many years ago. Like all python/php projects, it feels like the whole thing is held together with sticky tape and string, and that it'll fly apart at a moment's notice.

I've learned a lot about how the twig templating system works behind the scenes, and I've finally made myself a proper lightbox gallery with text and stuff. Now, I just need to find a decent way to upload images from my phone... It'd be nice if there was an image uploader plugin that also let you edit some metadata before saving it. All the galleries are automated, so it'd be nice if that was too.

Well, all the file permissions are set, and everything's locked down again, hurrah! OK, now to look for some uploading plugins (I hope I don't need to make one of my own! Arg.