Merge pull request #300 from orionrobots:on-not-spoiling-the-magic

Worlds undiscovered blog post

Author: dannystaple

.github/scripts/new_post.sh

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 
 set -eu -o pipefail
 
-
 function slug_from_title_and_date {
     echo "$POST_DAY-$1" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -s ' ' '-' | tr -s '[:punct:]' '-'
 }

.github/workflows/on_call_build_site.yaml

@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ jobs:
       DOCKER_BUILDKIT: 1
       COMPOSE_DOCKER_CLI_BUILD: 1
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+      - uses: actions/checkout@08c6903cd8c0fde910a37f88322edcfb5dd907a8 # v5.0.0
 
       - name: Set up Docker Buildx
         uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
 
       - name: Login to Docker
-        uses: docker/login-action@5e57cd118135c172c3672efd75eb46360885c0ef # v3
+        uses: docker/login-action@5e57cd118135c172c3672efd75eb46360885c0ef # v3.6.0
         with:
           registry: ghcr.io
           username: ${{ github.actor }}

.github/workflows/on_call_staging_test.yaml

@@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ jobs:
           tar -xzf _site.tar.gz
 
       - name: Set up Docker Buildx
-        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@e468171a9de216ec08956ac3ada2f0791b6bd435 # v3.11.1
 
       - name: Login to Docker
-        uses: docker/login-action@5e57cd118135c172c3672efd75eb46360885c0ef # v3
+        uses: docker/login-action@5e57cd118135c172c3672efd75eb46360885c0ef # v3.6.0
         with:
           registry: ghcr.io
           username: ${{ github.actor }}
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ jobs:
           curl -I -f http://localhost:8080/wiki/lego || exit_code=1
           
           # Run BDD integration tests using docker compose
-          echo "## BDD Test Results" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
-          echo "\`\`\`" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
+          echo "## BDD Test Results" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+          echo "\`\`\`" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
           docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.ci.yml run test 2>&1 | tee bdd_output.txt
           bdd_result=$?
           
@@ -64,13 +64,13 @@ jobs:
           awk '
             /^> orionrobots\.github\.io@/ { found=1 }
             found { print }
-          ' bdd_output.txt >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
-          echo "\`\`\`" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
+          ' bdd_output.txt >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+          echo "\`\`\`" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
           
           if [ $bdd_result -eq 0 ]; then
-            echo "✅ BDD tests passed" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
+            echo "✅ BDD tests passed" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
           else
-            echo "❌ BDD tests failed" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
+            echo "❌ BDD tests failed" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
             exit_code=1
           fi
           

.github/workflows/on_pr_lint.yaml

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout source code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
+        uses: actions/checkout@08c6903cd8c0fde910a37f88322edcfb5dd907a8 # v5.0.0
 
       - name: Lint Code Base
         continue-on-error: true

.github/workflows/on_push_to_master_test_and_deploy.yaml

@@ -88,16 +88,15 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v5
 
       - name: Check for workflow changes
-        # tj-actions/changed-files v44.5.7
-        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@24d32ffd492484c1d75e0c0b894501ddb9d30d62
+        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@24d32ffd492484c1d75e0c0b894501ddb9d30d62 # v47.0.0
         id: filter
         with:
           files: |
             .github/workflows/**
 
       # see https://github.com/mcdeck/netlify-cms-oauth-provider-php
       - name: Checkout the netlify-cms-oauth-provider-php
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
+        uses: actions/checkout@08c6903cd8c0fde910a37f88322edcfb5dd907a8 # v5.0.0
         with:
           repository: mcdeck/netlify-cms-oauth-provider-php
           path: netlify-cms-oauth-provider-php

content/2025/10/18-discovery-magic/18-discovery-magic.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+---
+title: Worlds undiscovered
+date: 2025-09-11
+tags:
+  - Exploration
+  - Learning
+  - Discovery
+  - Robot building
+---
+I still hear phrases like "ruining the magic" when it comes to understanding how stuff like technology, natural processes or cosmic phenomena work. However, I've a different take on this.  
+
+When you understand how some bit of tech works (for example, a mobile phone screen), then sure that no longer feels like magic.
+
+But there's a new awe that comes, "now I know how to make one, or integrate one, or how that thing works, what else might I do with it". Ideas may start to flood in, you may start to recognise the principles elsewhere, and the more you have learned, the more this happens. This continuous personal revelation can be pretty motivating and inspiring. The "Oh!" moments as stuff starts to slot in. The bit where that one tiny bit of maths that escaped you suddenly clicks, and a whole group of other conjectures come from it, which maybe lead you to understand concepts that never quite made sense before.  
+
+There's a phrase that I used to describe programming, but it pretty much describes any realm of exploration and discovery, that there are always "Worlds undiscovered" - new ways to use what you now know, new things to build from the blocks you have, or from the parts in those blocks you can now see, or places to discover from the place you had. And it might be just that tiny incremental bit of understanding, on the edge of your grasp from where you are now - it need not be an arctic trek.
+
+Keep exploring - be it worlds, places, technology, maths, philosophy, science - there are always Worlds Undiscovered!