Version Control
I think it's finally time for me to learn git.
I have been writing code that goes out into the world (starting with NMR Solvent Peaks) for about five years now, and I'm not proud to say that I haven't been using any form of version control. Nothing I do is complex enough to really need it, and it's just me.
But that's not sustainable, obviously. If I'm ever on a team of people working on a project or if I don't trust my edits (and boy howdy should I not trust my edits sometimes) I'm going to need to get good at it.
So the plan is to put the contents of this blog under version control. The code should definitely be under version control, but I'm also going to use it to send new blog posts to the server. Regenerating all of the html files will start by pushing down edits and new files, then parsing and writing html. I'm going to host the repository at Github for now, since it's there and I can write (or paste) right in their text editor.
And if it all blows up, well, hopefully I can roll back.
Edit, some time later:
This post, and this edit, were both pushed to the server by using git. Success!
Edit 2, in January of 2023:
This system turned out to really stink.