last highlighted date: 2024-12-31
Highlights
- Routing. I never really figured out the URL setup for blog posts in the Academic theme for Hugo; and I have a number of old posts from a Hakyll setup I breifly explored in 2015-2017 before abandoning it
- Image Components. This is a big one for me. For instance, I want to have a gallery where I can just show visuals that will show a tile of images. And since it’s the 2020s, that needs to look one way on desktop and quite a different way on mobile.
- CSS and themes. CSS is incredibly powerful, and incredibly hard to use with most frameworks I’ve explored. One reason is that the CSS gets shunted off into some file somewhere called ‘ /lib/app.scss ’ or something and it’s never clear from the css which things are boilerplate, which are essential classes used everywhere, and which are not used on a site at all.
- Blog posts have got to stay in Markdown. I just chose to shove most of the contents of the Hugo tree into ‘ src/content ’