Monday October 11, 2021; 9:50 AM EDT
- I was working with a user last night who wanted to use PagePark to provide his own domain name for his Drummer blog. This is very much a supported and recommended thing to do. #
- However, when he installed and ran PagePark it failed. On further investigation it broke due to the dateformat change I documented on Scripting News, that same one that took down the oldSchoolBlog package. #
- I did a quick survey of all my code, I use dateformat everywhere. This is a first class mess. #
- What's even more interesting is that he had the problem on Glitch, where I don't believe they give you the option of what version of Node to install. If that's true then dateformat broke Glitch too. #
- In any case -- for today -- I just updated the two bits of code that PagePark uses that broke, they are daverss and githubpub. I fixed them, published the new versions to NPM, updated my local test PagePark install and it boots up. Problem solved. So now we can proceed with the coolness of getting a $5 a month server to front for this user's Drummer blog.#