Working with fastpages, GitHub and Colab

The idea is to work with Jupyter Notebook in Colab, the notebook is part of a Fastpages blog and should be edited either in Colab or VS Code

• write a Blog in Fastpages
• format of Blog is Jupyter Notebook
• run the Notebook in Colab
• also edit in VS Code is necessary
  • use Git to synchronize GitHub repo with VS Code local copy

Write a blog with Fastpages

A detailed instruction on how to write Fastpage blogs is given at

• for juypter notebooks
• for markdown

Working with notebook in Colab

Once the blog is opened there are buttons

• View on GitHub The Jupyter Notbeook file is opened in the GitHub environment
• Open in Colab The Jupyter Notbeook file is opened in the Colab environment ¹

In the Colab environment the file can be run with GPU support. An intro to Colab is given here

To save the changes chose under “File” the option “Save a copy in GitHub” as shown below

Colab will open a dialog as shown below It might be that it asks for your GitHub credentials before opening the dialog

Working with VS Code

To work with the Fastpages blog clone the repository as described here

It is then easy to synchronize with GitHub, note, don’t forget to pull the repo once you saved a notebook version from Colab to GitHub.

Avoid conflicting versions

If you do the following

• Change file in Colab
• Save to GitHub
• Change same file in VS
• Try to push

You will have *conflicts in the file** and need command line magic to solve the issue. I ended up setting the whole blog up from scratch.

Better: use Git: Snyc which does a Git: Pull first and then a Git: Push