Everything I consider vital seems to be working. I haven’t had time to pore over the site thoroughly and see if anything broke that I didn’t account for.
Running without plugins, it builds in about 30 seconds. And that’s with all the crazy plugins I wrote to create tag indexes, search tools, related posts, and myriad other shenanigans. Now, with Jekyll 4 on an M1 Mac mini, it builds in 3-4 minutes. It takes that machine about 30 minutes to render this blog with about 2100 posts dating back to 2010. I have a 2012 Mac mini that actually handles the final build/deploy of this site (I needed an always-on machine to handle post scheduling hackery). I really miss the RX plugins - which crash Logic on the M1 - and hope they get their act together soon.) I spent the weekend rewriting Jekyll plugins, giving up a few that I didn’t really need anymore, and revamping some templates and scripts as needed to work with Jekyll 4.
DOTBOT RUBY PRO
(Well, that and Izotope plugins for Logic Pro X. The last thing that was keeping me from letting go of my Intel MacBook Pro was this blog. So I’ve been updating everything to use newer versions of the various tools.
DOTBOT RUBY INSTALL
If you want to use another version, you can install 3.0.1. You can kind of work around the Node issue by launching Terminal (or iTerm) using Rosetta (Get Info -> Open Using Rosetta) and using the arch command to fake an Intel machine, but no such luck with Ruby. But if you need, say, Node 10 and Ruby 2.6.5 for something (like this blog), you’re in trouble. If you want the latest versions of either, no problem, the edge builds are fine on ARM. However, Node and Ruby are a little bit stickier.
DOTBOT RUBY UPDATE
(It does, however, install everything to /opt/homebrew instead of /usr/local/bin, so I had to update a few scripts here and there where I’d hardcoded paths. The Homebrew community has done a great job of updating brew formulae for ARM compilation, and I only had trouble with about 3% of my (fairly large) Brewfile when I installed it on the M1. After wrestling with Mackup, brew bundle, and dotbot for a weekend, I got things mostly working. Much of the transition to Apple Silicon is easy, thanks to most developer’s readiness 1 combined with Rosetta and Universal Binary, but anyone who spends time on the command line will know that things are a little stickier once you get into your shell. Then I got an M1 Mac mini, and my very specific requirements became impossible. My Jekyll install had been stuck in about 2012 because a lot of the custom plugins I’d written over the years required very specific versions of various libraries, and it was working, so it got left alone. One that looks a lot like the last era, hopefully. If everything went to plan, this post will be the inauguration of a new era. Well, I finally updated the Jekyll instance that runs this blog.