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Youtube
A responsive and very fast shortcode to add youtube videos to your Hugo website.
Pictures
This component for GoHugo adds partials and shortcodes to resolve and process images on your website. It offers responsive image formats and optimised loading based on current browser abilities. The simplest way is to use this module as a drop-in. Just install it and forget you ever did.
Kurzschnitte II - First Edition
Welcome to the first edition of Kurzschnitte II, a collection of links I came across in recent weeks. These links were noteworthy to me, but I don’t want to write a full blog post about them. Instead, I’ve gathered them here for you to enjoy.
Notes from the Laboratory: July 2023
I am trying this new “thing” of “reporting” what I was up to in a certain period this year, and monthly reviews just sound like something normal people would do. Bear with me while I am typing up this report.
Pomplamoose does Moby
Today I learned, that Pomplamoose did a cover of Moby’s “Extreme Ways.” Nuff said.
WordPress Drops PHP 5
The WordPress blog announced on July 6th that starting from the next release (WP 6.3 on August 8th, 2023), the CMS will no longer support PHP 5. Yes, that’s correct. PHP 5.6, the final version of PHP 5, reached the end of its lifecycle on December 31st, 2018, but it was still supported by the most widely used CMS until recently.
Understanding SVG paths
Nanda Syahrasyad (not a number) has created a perfect little course for us to learn, how SVG paths work. Including paths, animations, and, of course, tests if we really understood what we learned. Highly recommended.
Removing all local and remote tags in Git
Every now and then I find myself in the situation of needing to tidy up my projects and remove large amounts of local and remote tags in my Git repositories. The procedure is not too hard, but I have to look it up again each time, so why not just writing it up.
Notes from the Laboratory: June 2023
It’s that time of the month again where I am trying this “new thing” of “reporting” what I was up to in a certain time period this year. So bear with me while I am typing up this report. 100DaysToOffload: I recently realised, that theoretically this whole 100 posts in one year thingy here on the blog is going on for 1.
Head
This is a GoHugo theme component that solves the old question “What tags belong into the <head> tag of my website?” Set it up, configure it, forget it’s there. This component adds a multitude of tags and is extensively configurable.
Sitemap
This is a Hugo theme component with layouts to add a configurable sitemap to your website. Hugo itself has internal templates that add sitemaps, but this component has additional setup options per page. Add this module [[module.imports]] path = "github.com/davidsneighbour/hugo-sitemap" disable = false ignoreConfig = false ignoreImports = false Latest Version v1.
Robots
This component for GoHugo adds a customizable robots.txt to your website. This module overrides the internal robots.txt generation of Hugo and lets you configure what robots.txt in your public folder will contain. It also offers a meta-robots tag for your head section.
Ping Goes Poof
Google on Monday announced that they will change several things regarding to sitemaps and pinging the search engine about updates of the sitemap. The main points are: Pings are not accepted anymore starting in 6 months, due to them being unreliable.
Changes to Hugo's debugging abilities on the CLI
Hugo in version 0.114.0 finally introduced the changes I wrote about a while back. The hugo command on the CLI now dropped the --log and --verboseLog flags and deprecated the --verbose and --debug flags. Instead, it now uses the --logLevel as an indicator of verbosity.
npkill - cleanup heaps of node_modules
Discover npkill, a command-line tool to clean up space wasted by node_modules folders. Easy to use, fast, and minimal dependencies.
How to handle key issues with apt on Ubuntu
For some time now, I was receiving the following warnings after an otherwise successful run of apt update: plain 1W: http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu/dists/disco/Release.gpg: 2Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), 3see the DEPRECATION section in apt-key(8) for details. 4W: http://prerelease.keybase.io/deb/dists/stable/InRelease: 5Key is stored in legacy trusted.
Switching content types in Hugo: A step-by-step guide
Hugo, the little static site generator that powers this website, offers two main content organization options known as page bundles. Page bundles provide a way to group page resources in leaf and branch bundles, allowing for more structured content management. In this quick guide, I will show you how to easily switch between the two types without much manual work.
Notes from the Laboratory: May 2023
I am trying this new “thing” of “reporting” what I was up to in a certain time period this year, and monthly reviews just sound like something normal people would do. So bear with me while I am typing up this report.
What if Wes Anderson… (Part 2)
What if Wes Anderson would have directed a horror movie? I think it would have been awesome.
Creating a Hugo site index
I recently cut out a feature from this website that exported all the content to a JSON file, which I then used to populate my Algolia search index. However, I removed this functionality because I found a more efficient search engine for my small blog.
Patch Notes: Hélène Vogelsinger
I am a huge fan of electrically created soundscapes. People with cables punching them into holes connecting things that rotate elecrons, reverb waves, negate sounds, and create, what is not there. Hélène Vogelsinger is one of these artists. She creates beautiful soundscapes with her modular synthesizers.
What if Wes Anderson… (Part 1)
What if Wes Anderson would have directed a Star Wars movie? I think it would have been awesome.
Notes from the Laboratory: April 2023
I am trying this new “thing” of “reporting” what I was up to in a certain time period this year, and monthly reviews just sound like something normal people would do. So bear with me while I am typing up this report.
That wasn't my fault
A slight spoiler warning for the third season of “Star Trek: Picard” ahead. I am binging currently (maybe later some notes about this habit) the third and final season of “Star Trek: Picard.” So many of my “peers” were unhappy about it and the whole three-season run.
React, visualized
Are you new to React and feeling overwhelmed by its concepts and syntax? Or maybe you’re a seasoned developer looking for a quick refresher on React’s fundamentals? Either way, the folks at react.gg and ui.dev got you covered with their just released visualized guide to React.