zerosleeps

Did you notice that the code block in my last post doesn’t have syntax highlighting (here’s what the code block should look like)? Yeah, true to form I haven’t done anything about replacing or upgrading the generator used to create this site.

My Ruby 2.6.9 (de-supported for well over a year now) installation broke and I can’t build it on my arm64 Mac any more. The smallest possible upgrade I could make to get back into supported-Ruby-land was to version 2.7.7. Octopress was able to generate pages on that version, albeit with a tonne of deprecation warnings.

But Pygments 0.6 - which is used to add the code highlighting - refuses to play nicely with Ruby 2.7.7. That version of Pygments is a dependency of Jekyll 2, and I can’t upgrade Jekyll because Octopress 2 depends on Jekyll 2.

Installing Python 2 might help, but Homebrew doesn’t have a Python 2 formula any more. My code blocks use Python 3 syntax anyway.

This is absolutely on me - I’ve let this thing rot for so long that it doesn’t feel like there’s any way back now 😕