web dev
I am by no means a professional web developer, but this is a tag about tips and tricks I’ve learned while working on my various hobby projects (mostly this very site).
Posts
- : 🖥 Micro post: After two and a half weeks running my own blog at this subdomain, I feel energised to start making a static site to go …
- : 🖥 Micro post: Today I started teaching myself how to use Hugo! The Quick Start guide on the official site is indeed a good quick …
- : 🖥 Truncating Only Posts With Titles on Micro.blog: When I first got started on Micro.blog, one thing I wasn’t satisfied with was that my long posts appeared in full …
- : 🌏 Micro post: An eight-year-old blog post (external link) on many points of internationalisation developers screw up, including …
- : 💻 Improving Load Times by Fixing My Images: As I mentioned in my post about Gemini, mine is a lightweight website for the most part; it’s built with a static …
- : 🖥 How I Integrated Webmentions Into My Hugo Static Site: Since I moved my blog over to Hugo, I’ve been wanting to do a little series of posts about various aspects of my …
- : 🖥 Using Taxonomies to Create Monthly Archives in Hugo: By default, Hugo doesn’t create date-based archive pages for you. And while it’s relatively straightforward …
- : 📱 Updating My Hugo Blog From My Phone: It is a truth universally acknowledged that an individual in possession of a Hugo blog must feel compelled to make loads …
- : 💻 Site update: So, I’m taking the teensiest little baby steps towards creating a Micropub endpoint (external link) for my …
- : 💻 Site update: I’ve run into more obstacles than I thought I would, but not only do I have an Indiekit Micropub endpoint up and …
- : 💻 Site update: I think the DNS has all updated now, so that’s that: I’m now serving my site through …
- : 💻 Site update: On the off-chance you noticed a couple of hours’ downtime earlier today, that’ll be because I moved this site’s hosting …
- : 💻 Site update: Uhh, well here’s a little Vercel quirk to be aware of: its default build command for Hugo repositories builds all …
- : 🖥 Some Thoughts on Dark Mode: As different platforms have implemented built-in “dark mode” functionality over recent years, it’s …
- : 💻 A Quick Tour of My New Theme: So, this is not the ground-up overhaul I mentioned wanting to do in yesterday’s entry. (If it was, there …
- : 💻 Nord Dark Syntax Highlighting for Hugo: I said the other day that I would figure out how to customise the syntax highlighting for the Nord …
- : 🖥 CSS Hyphenation: Since I made the switch to a narrower main column and larger text, I’d been feeling like the “jagged right …
- : 💻 Site update: It’s been bugging me for a while that Vercel is generating incorrect “last modified” datetimes for my …
- : 🖥 Automatically Mark External Links in Hugo: Here’s something I have achieved today: I got my site to display an “external link” SVG icon at the …
- : 💻 Site update: Did something I’ve been intending to do for a while, and added glightbox (external link) to this site so …
- : 💬 Rambling on Hugo’s Multilingual Mode: A couple of days ago I started experimenting with Hugo’s multilingual mode (external link). Basically, I …
- : 💻 Time for a Not-So-Fun Hugo Fact!: If you have a post with only one category, and choose between adding it to your post’s YAML metadata in one of the …
Links
- : 🖥 Link: “136 facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to landscape painting or nude modelling” by Baldur Bjarnason
- : 🎹 Link: “The curious case of the disappearing Polish S”
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Jessica Smith is a left-wing feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also very interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.