Random Errors

This site is a place where I document the solutions for the random problems and errors I encounter when writing code or learning new technologies. For most of the topics listed below, I created the article only after completing an extensive Internet search for a solution, but couldn't find one, before finally figuring it out myself. The site currently has 21 posts.

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I use a npm package I created called Eleventy-New-Post to create new posts for my Eleventy sites. It saves me the work of copying a post file in the project folder then emptying it before adding the new content for the post. It also automates selecting a category for the post from an automatically generated list of all categories used by the site.

While migrating my personal blog to Eleventy, I decided to add a statistics page to the site. As part of that, I wanted to add the publish dates for the first and last posts on the site. Getting the first post date was easy:

I've been trying to figure out how to easily build a categories page for this site that lists all categories including the number of posts per category (easily done in Eleventy) and a separate page for each category with pagination when the article list is greater than 20 posts.

I am in the process of migrating my existing johnwargo.com site hosted on FatCow to Eleventy hosted on Netlify and while I work on the site, I setup my jmw-test.com domain so it points to the work in progress site.

I recently switched this site to Eleventy and I noticed that my posts weren't sorting correctly on the home page. I want them sorted in reverse chronological order, but the site did the opposite.

I recently updated one of my WordPress Sites and noticed that my site's News menu didn't display any articles. I poked around at my site's posts and didn't notice anything wrong with them, they were all set with the right category.

I'm a huge fan of Adafruit's projects, especially the Feather series of microcontrollers and associated FeatherWings (add-on boards). The format is so popular that Particle (another one of my favorite hardware companies) even adopted the footprint for their latest hardware.

I'm building a web app using Ionic and needed a Pipe to transform some data for the app. I'm implementing a CSV file import process and I wanted to display each CSV row as a comma separated list after I'd imported all of it into a JSON object. My goal was to display the list for the user to make sure that the CSV Parsing process worked correctly before completing the import.

I'm working a lot lately in Firebase and when trying to setup Firebase Hosting for one of my domains, Firebase showed me the following dialog:

I'm working a lot lately in Firebase, and when trying to setup Firebase Hosting for one of my domains - I wrote about other issues in an earlier post. In this case, I want to setup a subdomain (for example: subname.mysite.com), Firebase showed me the following dialog:

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