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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 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.

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.

I outline the process I used to create a custom Hugo Taxonomy so could have articles ordered into a series. There are a lot of moving parts in getting this to work. Hopefully gets the broad strokes explained with the resources I used to help me.