Jugaad
This is a side story from the first 4-6 weeks, when I wasn't able to get the GitLab site up and running although I had managed to get MKDocs to work just fine.
Several Wednesdays in, and I still hadn’t been able to get the GitLab site up. I had been writing up all the markdown pages, but the pipeline wasn't working. To say that I was at a bit of a loss about what to do would be a understatement. It was already another Wednesday and the terror of the randomizer reigned supreme !
With maybe less than an hour to go, I finally decided it was time to stop problem-solving and start being effective in any way possible !
I had a Github site for a few random pages and to use as a sandbox when trying to deploy some p5.js sketches, etc. It had been a while, but I generally remembered how to start a new repo and have it turn up as a page using github pages.
I ran mkdocs build to generate the static page website from all my markdown pages, then uploaded the entire set into a github repo and made it available as a page, and lo and behold, the “site” was “live”. With minutes to spare, I edited my GITLab landing page directly using the web IDE and inserted a hyperlink to the github.io page !
And that’s how I got a live site until I figured things out in the next couple of weeks !
Here's the page in all it's unchanged glory. I decided to keep it up as a comparison to how far the actual page has come.