Leveraging a couple of articles and a friend’s suggestion of Huginn, this might actually work…
I started using Hugo - as I’ve attempted a few blogs and sites over the years - to journal various projects and hobbies or capture thoughts and the like over the years… At the same time, I had wanted to get away from the social media behemoths and get back to using Mastodon (…or seriously ever start).
If I couldn’t keep on Hugo, though, and there wasn’t a (known) critical mass on Mastodon…well, just looking at the infrequency of my posts on either tells the story.
But if I could post to Hugo and get it to Mastodon with little to trouble…and make it a nerdy project along the way?
Enter Huginn. I had beat my head against it before by installing it as a docker container on my QNAP (which worked right out of the box) and on unRAID (which didn’t) and since I didn’t keep the QNAP around and it wasn’t working on unRAID, my ADHD brain ran off to something else it likely wouldn’t finish.
Enter Huginn again, after I decided to pin my brain still on it for a few hours and it turned out that the failure on unRAID was a permissions thing. I should figure it out properly and not just alter the permissions on the share external to the container…but here we are.
I won’t call out C directly but also Interfacing Huginn with Mastodon helped with much of the set up.
So…fingers crossed, this might work or it might not…