I’m not very good at throwing old stuff away. On the Internet, storage space is nearly infinite (in comparison to my brain). So i rather archive than delete. I’m like a squirrel in that way. Thus, i decided that i wanted to keep my old Now posts, to turn the Now section into something akin to a blog. How easy i though it was. This site is built on Hugo, a static web site generator.

Updated the theme for my blog and oh goodness, now i need to have an image for each post or you’ll get my solemn figure for each entry unless i can find something nicer. I’ve already patched my site’s theme so that i can give credit to any creator who isn’t me. Now i just need to think of a nifty way to include the license of the image too.

It happened again. I let this site’s certificate expire. I’d blame my faulty calendar entry, but it’s really just a case of my procrastination. As i was getting ready to read my article on how to renew the Letsencrypt certificate the hard way, again, i saw that Gitlab Pages had something new to surprise me with. Automatic Letsencrypt Certificate Management. By the beard of Odin. Here are the steps to enable that

Inactivity can do wonders. Having been on summer vacation for a while and not having done anything technically creative, my mind decided it’s time to experiment a little. I have a few websites, or blogs, or whatever, and for reasons of simplicity and incompetence, these have always been separate from each other. Well, i thought, how about trying to consolidate them? Just for fun? So that’s what i did. My blogs/sites use Hugo, a static website generator.

I got a nice and polite notice a month ago that my certificate on my blog is expiring. Thankfully i have documented the process on my blog, i thought. Sadly, i can’t remember on which of my computers i created the certificate. Also, i need that computer to renew the cert, and in the end, none of the computers i tend to use actually seemed to be able to renew the cert. So it looks like i’m having to renew the cert the Hard Way. From scratch.

Just recently, Hugo, the web site generator i use for this site, got a new feature: Composite theming. This means that you can build themes on other themes, or even do weird things like multi theme sites. I decided to try theme compositing just to change the fonts of my site.

Setting up https on a hugo site on Gitlab pages with your custom domain requires some manual work, but if i can do it, so can you.

TL;DR: To preserve html styling in summaries on hugo, use the tag <!--amore--> (removing the letter a) in your text.

Well would look at that – it’s a blog post!

I haven’t really toyed around with this thing for a while, but i somehow got the inspiration now, so why stop a good inspiration when you have it?

So what is this thing?