Published at June 27, 2020 · 2 min read
The only thing left with the blog was to add a commenting system. Hugo’s default is Disqus, but I didn’t want that for the usual reasons of lack-of-privacy and bloat. After searching around, I looked at isso and commento. Commento needs Postgres whereas isso uses the much lighter SQLite. Since I get only a few comments, it’s isso first up. The first obstacle is that the pip install succeeds, but isso run fails immediately with...
Published at June 18, 2020 · 1 min read
Setup is not complete, it turns out. I had been using the preview server to view my changes and everything looked fine as in my last post. But when I went to deploy the content over to the live server, I could not get the deployment to work. Most of the styling was missing and the site looked like a brutal minimalist site[1]. I spent an entire afternoon working on it with Github, Gitlab and Netlify, but with no success....
Published at June 17, 2020 · 1 min read
I switched to the zola static site generator from hugo. Hugo’s theming seems complex and I couldn’t find a theme I liked, whereas I found one with zola almost immediately. The blog setup using zola is pretty much complete. I’ve done an About, Contact Me and Search pages. The only thing left to do is a commenting system, but in the meantime, while I’m sorting that out, readers can get in touch via Contact Me....
Published at June 14, 2020 · 1 min read
I’ve started blogging after a six year break. This is a new blog using the Hugo static website generator written in Go. It’s super fast at creating the site, less than 1 second. Let’s go <ahem>. Here’s some dummy content to test things out. Test highlighting with some code examples: Bash if i < 10; then i = 10 fi Looks good apart from the closing fi. I had to change the markdown from two tabs to eight spaces for i = 10 though, otherwise the indentation wasn’t recognised as markdown....