update: journal entry for week starting 18 November

docs/posts/2024/november/18.md

@@ -123,6 +123,16 @@ A mechanical keyboard is used to drive the laptops, rather than their own keyboa
 [:globe_with_meridians: Secret Labs Magnus Pro desk](https://secretlab.co.uk/products/magnus-pro)
 
 
+## Practicalli Blog publishing issue
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+[Material-MkDocs Issue 7725](https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/issues/7725)
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+The GitHub action workflow use to publish the Practicalli blog websites started failing two days ago when [`mkdocs-material` version 9.5.45 was release](https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/releases/tag/9.5.45).
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+Posts with only a date value started to fail the MkDocs build due to an issue with the `date:` format.  Practically blog posts use the `yyyy-mm-dd` format without a time or timezone.  When Material for MkDocs is comparing the date of the post with the current time an error occurs.
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+I [temporarily resolved the issue](https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/issues/7725#issuecomment-2493120248) by explicitly configuring Python PIP to install `mkdocs-material` version 9.5.44 package in the GitHub Action workflow file.
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 ## Optimise GitHub Org Log retention