Blogging

Unfortunately Symbolic Links and shortcuts don’t work within Typora’s file listing. I found a work around though: Create a symbolic link to the folder you wish to add in the default Typora markdown directory, this will then show up in the the file listing, it won’t do anything though if you click on it, as it isn’t implemented or supported in Typora yet. But, if you right click on the icon link in the file list and choose Open in New Window it will load the linked directories contents. ...

I seem to have let this site go unloved for a long time. The main reason I suppose is a lack of motivation in posting and a bigger lack of interesting things to post. I have been quite busy though, both with Blender and in the last month, or so, with Moi3d. I hadn’t used Moi3d in a long time and was starting to miss the little tool, so took a few weeks to refresh my muscle memory and get some practice in. Artstation now has a number of new posts and I am happy with the results. Nothing major on there, but steady output. ...

I recently set up a addon for Visual Studio Code, for editing Markdown files in HUGO. The addon was from Elio Struyf called FrontMatter. I got it working quickly enough. Although I had problems with the media paths not showing correctly in the media browser. The reason for this was, I’d used the default setting (as mentioned in the documentation) which assumes media will be in the root static folder, where as I had media in an assets folder under the content folder. ...