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March Of Time March is nearly over and European Summer Time is just a few days away, and I haven’t posted on here again. I missed February completely and so I was determined not to fail March. To that end here is a little post about nothing in particular to fill the gap. To be fair though March went by quite quickly, I guess the depressing news cycle helped pass the time with its constant sabre rattling and doom scrolling headlines. Try as I might I find it hard not get caught up in it, mostly in the hope there is some good news and the end of the madness is on the horizon. Of course it isn’t these things go on and on, powered by ego, greed, and stupidity. So no end in sight. ...

End Of An Era For a long time now I have been meaning to delete my Artstation account. One reason I kept it around was that it was a link source of some images on my other website, the other was a lack of impetus. I haven’t used the place in a very long time. Posting just once in the last twelve months, and then only because I hadn’t posted; very meta I know. ...

And another year bites the dust: This has not been a particularly pleasant year for many. The world seems to be on the verge of some social implosion, it has become tiresome and depressing. Most, I think, hope that the next one will be better, personally however, I doubt it, and so don’t want to think too much about it. The global state of affairs has certainly affected my will and energy to post or comment, the later always a stressor due to others oft hostile reactions. So I spent most of the year doodling in Blender as a stress distractor and listened to a good number of books whilst modelling. ...

Hugo Post after update fails After updating to HUGO version v0.146.0 I was unable to run the compilation due to template definition errors. I found the solution below and after correcting the lines shown in the diff all was working once again. For those unfamiliar with diff the lines starting with a +green are the new line, the -red the old. diff --git a/layouts/partials/head.html b/layouts/partials/head.html index 3e55c67..ae6450a 100644 --- a/layouts/partials/head.html +++ b/layouts/partials/head.html @@ -150,8 +150,8 @@ {{- /* Misc */}} {{- if hugo.IsProduction | or (eq site.Params.env "production") }} -{{- template "_internal/google_analytics.html" . }} -{{- template "partials/templates/opengraph.html" . }} -{{- template "partials/templates/twitter_cards.html" . }} -{{- template "partials/templates/schema_json.html" . }} +{{- partial "google_analytics.html" . }} +{{- partial "templates/opengraph.html" . }} +{{- partial "templates/twitter_cards.html" . }} +{{- partial "templates/schema_json.html" . }} {{- end -}} diff --git a/layouts/partials/templates/schema_json.html b/layouts/partials/templates/schema_json.html index dc3bfd6..8a4efb4 100644 --- a/layouts/partials/templates/schema_json.html +++ b/layouts/partials/templates/schema_json.html @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ {{ (path.Join .RelPermalink .Params.cover.image ) | absURL }}, {{- end}} {{- else }} - {{- $images := partial "partials/templates/_funcs/get-page-images" . -}} + {{- $images := partial "templates/_funcs/get-page-images" . -}} {{- with index $images 0 -}} "image": {{ .Permalink }}, {{- end }} diff --git a/layouts/partials/templates/twitter_cards.html b/layouts/partials/templates/twitter_cards.html index 6b0d59b..a6e1d05 100644 --- a/layouts/partials/templates/twitter_cards.html +++ b/layouts/partials/templates/twitter_cards.html @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ <meta name="twitter:image" content="{{ (path.Join .RelPermalink .Params.cover.image ) | absURL }}"> {{- end}} {{- else }} -{{- $images := partial "partials/templates/_funcs/get-page-images" . -}} +{{- $images := partial "templates/_funcs/get-page-images" . -}} {{- with index $images 0 -}} <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image"> <meta name="twitter:image" content="{{ .Permalink }}"> Link to the Original Post

May Day It is the first of May or in the common parlance: May Day. The international workers day and a public holiday in most western countries. I took the day as a day of rest and relaxation, enjoying the fine weather and relative peace and quiet for a change. The older I get, the more noisy humans irritate me and my ability to ignore them diminishes. Perhaps I am imagining it but I am sure world is just getting louder and more annoying. ...

The problem The date: variable in HUGO needs to be actual, not in the past, for the post to register. I don’t know yet why but that isn’t important, only the solution is so… The correct post date format in YAML is: date: 2025-04-01T19:37:18+02:00 The last part of the string +02:00 indicates UTC1 plus 2 hours, which for my current location is CET +1 2. The first solution After a little searching, for the wrong thing (UTC offsets) I came across the Python class: time and the functiontime.daylight specifically. This boolean function returns True if it is Summer Time and False if it is Winter Time, which allows to check the state in an if statement, thus: ...

A bit of a post winter bug My little Hugo post creation app stopped working correctly this morning. The reason was the date formatting in the post date: variable. The code had the date formatted for GMT + 1 and now we have GMT + 2. I haven’t checked what was happening, but assume the date must be in the future for it to fail to post. I can’t see it as a date in the past, which seems more logical given +1 instead of +2. ...

How I did it I recently wrote a Python app for creating a basic HUGO post, front matter and post.md file in content directory. Then I decided to make an icon on the desktop to launch the code. This is what I did: These instructions are for MacOS not Windows: The main thing is to create a shell script that runs the python file and then copy it to the desktop and remove any extension like .sh ...

Edit the extend_footer.html ,location shown above, and add the following snippet to the file. This will then zoom the image when clicked and set the background to a darker grey. {{- /* Footer custom content area start */ -}} {{- /* Insert any custom code web-analytics, resources, etc. here */ -}} <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/medium-zoom/1.0.6/medium-zoom.min.js" integrity="sha512-N9IJRoc3LaP3NDoiGkcPa4gG94kapGpaA5Zq9/Dr04uf5TbLFU5q0o8AbRhLKUUlp8QFS2u7S+Yti0U7QtuZvQ==" crossorigin="anonymous" referrerpolicy="no-referrer" ></script> <script> const images = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(".post-content img")); images.forEach((img) => { mediumZoom(img, { margin: 0 /* The space outside the zoomed image */, scrollOffset: 40 /* The number of pixels to scroll to close the zoom */, container: null /* The viewport to render the zoom in */, template: null /* The template element to display on zoom */, /*background: "rgba(50, 50, 50, 1)",*/ }); }); </script> {{- /* Footer custom content area end */ -}}

I haven’t posted at all this month, I have been busy though so to make it before December here is a little model I made at the end of last month: I don’t think next month will be any better, we will see…