The ArchWiki stands as a testament to the dedication and care of the Arch Linux user community and has long been the envy of other distros. Although only topics germane to Arch Linux are to be documented, the level of detail and breadth of information have proven to be useful to users of other distros as well. As outlined in the following LWN article , the Debian project invited a pair of ArchWiki…
Over the years I've made several changes to how this website is hosted and deployed. In its original incarnation, it was a Jekyll site hosted with GitHub Pages. Eventually I felt the need to move the repository and its deployment to GitLab for one or more reasons. GitLab offers a Jekyll project for getting started with GitLab Pages. I ended up forking the Build Jekyll with Bundler repo as a…
Note - This post was originally published on my Etruscan Studies Blog at the following link on 2024-02-13 In my previous post , I mentioned a tool called Datasette, a neat open-source tool for exploring and publishing data. I explained how I scraped an archived copy of the Etruscan Texts Project (ETP) and ultimately populated it into a SQLite DB using a Python script I wrote. Following up on that,…
Note - This post was originally published on my Etruscan Studies Blog at the following link on 2024-02-10 In my recent foray into researching the Etruscan language, I came across the the Etruscan Texts Project (ETP), which served as a searchable online repository of Etruscan inscriptions. I found references and links to the website on active UMass Amherst webpages and elsewhere, but the links…