Primordial Analytics Consulting, LLC

Welcome to the open source repo for our web site! We strongly believe in the value of open source and sharing knowledge that has common value. Feel free to dig around in our code and see how we’ve modified a free template from Start Bootstrap.

Howto’s

Semantic Versioning

To update the version of the site that has been released, use bumpversion:

bumpversion minor --verbose
git push origin --tags

HTML5 Movie

One of our founders has an affinity for cosmology and astrophysics: it’s in the name, the logo, the font face, and our theme. So that movie on the front page, how did we make that? It’s super simple:

# get a movie file to work
wget https://nasaviz.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010600/a010661/Galaxy_Evolution-tracking_shot2-1080p.mov
# transform to an HTML5 friendly mp4 format
ffmpeg -i Galaxy_Evolution-tracking_shot-1080p.mov -vcodec copy -acodec copy galaxy.mp4
# compress the movie so it runs faster
ffmpeg -i galaxy.mp4 -filter:v "setpts=0.5*PTS" a.mp4
# trim to fit visually
ffmpeg -i a.mp4 -t 19 -c copy b.mp4

Building the Site

Assuming Linux. Install Ruby and deps follwing the instructions here.

gem install bundler jekyll

To rebuild the site from scratch and capture config updates and styles changes, run the gulp command and then build the site:

gulp default
bundle exec jekyll serve --watch --trace --drafts --verbose

To run maintenance tasks, use bundle or npm:

bundle clean --force
gem install bundler jekyll
bundle update
bundle install
npm cache clean --force
rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json
npm install
npm audit
npm audit fix
bundle exec jekyll serve --watch --trace --drafts --verbose

Attributions

With the exception of a few dollars per month in AWS charges and our personal time, our web site was built for free. Why wouldn’t we pay someone? Our web site is partly to demonstrate the power of the analytical individual and the strength of the open source community. When consultancies launch into wanting to sell software XYZ from proprietary vendor ABC, it’s a way of creating lock-in for long-term work — this is a linchpin in the “land and expand” business model. At Primordial, we take the opposite view: we want you to see our work and for your people to have access to the code. That’s what we’ve done with our site.

GitHub Pages Hosting
Jekyll Blog Framework
Startup Bootstrap Site Template
Startup Bootstrap HTML5 Snippets
NASA Galaxy Image
NASA Galaxy Video
Coverr MP4 Videos
Unsplash Stock Photos
Fontawesome Icons
Noun Project Logos
Font Squirrel Fonts
Communications powered by AWS:
- API Gateway (email form)
- CloudWatch (API logs)
- Lambda (form processing and email sending)
- SES (send email)

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Web site project code is released under the MIT License.

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