# Memory Hole: Original Post - 2025-09-06
Just a quick note, to say I want to stop giving the effort I spend helping people use QGIS to Reddit to sell to the AI overlords. So I'm purposing my heart to put anything that I feel is useful on my blog, Even if it is published on GitHub (owned by one of the AI overlords), at least I control the domain and keep a copy of the information on my machine.

Problem, can I remember how this blog works? It's been almost 6 years since I posted anything. I guess if this is online, I remembered.

## Things I'm getting hung up on:
### What is the name of the software I'm using? Oh it's Jekyll. Seems to be installed.
* Try:
```
bundle exec jekyll serve
```
* Nope:
```
Could not locate Gemfile or .bundle/ directory
```
* Google some stuff.
* Try:
```
gem install jekyll bundler
```
* Hmm, that barfed with:
```
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0 directory.
```
## Well, maybe I don't need to get it working locally, push it up to GitHub and see if anything happens.
* Oh shit, git is still configured to use my password, which GitHub stopped supporting years ago I think.
* Dink around. Look at how something I'm using now is configured.
* Hmm, still problems. Can't find repository.
* Oh yeah, for some stupid reason I have this repository under a different GitHub username.
## Hey I think that works, but I still need to have a local preview working.

# Update - 2025-09-07

I have a new computer since I last used Jekyll and I was obliviously trying to use the system install of Ruby which is not recommended.* Instead I've now installed Ruby 3.4.1 and chruby to manage my Ruby environment. In the environment I ended up with, the command to serve a local version of my site is simply:

```
jekyll serve
```

=> https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/macos/ * Jekyll on MacOS (web link)

## Ported from the World Wide Web

This post was originally published on my web log.* If you would like to know more about why I've ported this, read my gemlog post about it.† The post has been reviewed and may include corrections and clarifications.

=> https://geodatawrangler.lazym8.com/ * Tales of Wrangling Geodata (web link)
=> gemini://sdf.org/paulmccombs/gemlog/introduction-to-geminispace.gmi † Paul's introduction to Geminispace

Ported  2026-06-12
Updated 2026-07-13 - formatting
Updated 2026-08-06 - copy editing