Articles

Ditching drawing tools for a declarative, code-based diagramming solution using Mermaid.js…with Catppuccin. Meow!

After having my feed bombared with the power of AI-assisted coding using spec driven devolpment and this being a more rational approach to outcome success vs the slop of “vide coding”. I thought I would examin its use to implement a specific Hugo feature I wanted to create for my site, from requirements to styled solution, in minutes.

A primer on Nix and Nix-Darwin and the how and why I have implemented it as a replacement to Homebrew and MacPorts on my laptop for easier and reproducable application and state management in a MacOS environment.

How I use GitHub Actions to build and deploy my Hugo site to GitHub Pages. This is my first real CI/CD pipeline.

How I use GitHub Pages as the free hosting solution for my Hugo site. Version controlled, highly available, and HTTPS by default.

How I fixed the issue with non-intel trasceiver not working with Intel X520 network card. Intel trying to be smart and how to tell the card to get over itself.

Testing out some hugo internal image render hooks and to what extent custom styling can be added to images

How I organise, reference, and render images in my Hugo site using page bundles, the static folder, and shortcodes. Use standard markdown or extended attributes.

How I made external links open in a new tab, added security attributes and appended an icon, without touching Markdown content

In implementing a list pagination feature for my site, I pivoted from complex custom code to using Hugo’s robust built-in template. This saved development time, which was better spent styling the default HTML output with custom CSS.