First locate the theme’s svg.html located here: themes/PaperMod/layouts/partials/svg.html

Open the file in a text editor, make a copy first of course.

Then add the following block of code into the file, you will see the format and just copy the ones that are in there.

 	{{- else if (eq $icon_name "bluesky") -}}
	<svg viewBox="0 0 360 320" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="currentColor">
	    <path d="M180 141.964C163.699 110.262 119.308 51.1817 78.0347 22.044C38.4971 -5.86834 23.414 -1.03207 13.526 3.43594C2.08093 8.60755 0 26.1785 0 36.5164C0 46.8542 5.66748 121.272 9.36416 133.694C21.5786 174.738 65.0603 188.607 105.104 184.156C107.151 183.852 109.227 183.572 111.329 183.312C109.267 183.642 107.19 183.924 105.104 184.156C46.4204 192.847 -5.69621 214.233 62.6582 290.33C137.848 368.18 165.705 273.637 180 225.702C194.295 273.637 210.76 364.771 295.995 290.33C360 225.702 313.58 192.85 254.896 184.158C252.81 183.926 250.733 183.645 248.671 183.315C250.773 183.574 252.849 183.855 254.896 184.158C294.94 188.61 338.421 174.74 350.636 133.697C354.333 121.275 360 46.8568 360 36.519C360 26.1811 357.919 8.61012 346.474 3.43851C336.586 -1.02949 321.503 -5.86576 281.965 22.0466C240.692 51.1843 196.301 110.262 180 141.964Z"/>
	</svg>

Save the file and then you can use bluesky in the config.yaml or toml to display the icon. For example:

  socialIcons: # optional
    - name: "mastodon"
      url: "https://graphics.social/@mbt3d"
    - name: "bluesky"
      url: "https://bsky.app/profile/mbt.eurosky.social"

Bonus, here’s the Mastodon one if you don’t have it:

{{- else if (eq $icon_name "mastodon") -}}
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2"
    stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round">
    <path
        d="M21.58 13.913c-.29 1.469-2.592 3.121-5.238 3.396-1.379.184-2.737.368-4.185.276-2.368-.092-4.237-.551-4.237-.551 0 .184.014.459.043.643.308 2.294 2.317 2.478 4.22 2.57 1.922 0 3.633-.46 3.633-.46l.079 1.653s-1.344.734-3.738.918c-1.32.091-2.96-.092-4.869-.551-4.14-1.102-4.853-5.507-4.961-10.005-.034-1.285-.013-2.57-.013-3.58 0-4.589 3-5.966 3-5.966 1.513-.734 4.11-1.01 6.808-1.01h.067c2.699 0 5.296.276 6.81 1.01 0 0 3 1.377 3 5.967 0 0 .037 3.304-.419 5.69"
        stroke="currentColor" />
    <path
        d="M17.832 8.633v5h-1.978V8.78c0-1.023-.43-1.542-1.29-1.542-.95 0-1.427.616-1.427 1.834v2.655H11.17V9.072c0-1.218-.476-1.834-1.427-1.834-.86 0-1.29.52-1.29 1.542v4.852H6.475V8.633c0-1.022.26-1.834.782-2.434.538-.6 1.243-.909 2.118-.909 1.012 0 1.779.39 2.286 1.169l.492.827.493-.827c.507-.78 1.274-1.169 2.286-1.169.875 0 1.58.308 2.118.909.522.6.782 1.412.782 2.434"
        fill="currentColor" stroke="none" />
</svg>

In the browser address bar type: about:config

Then search for: nova

Then change the boolean value of: browser.nova.enabled to false

If you can’t find the setting you can add it.

So today I removed all my old posts bar one and deleted the Books and Notes sections completely not sure why I did it in the first place other than it seemed like a good idea at the time.

From now on I will be pruning heavily each year and keeping the stuff on here to the minimum. I have Obsidian for local notes so don’t need an online source anymore.

Next step is to sort out my studio site as I originally had that linked to images on Artstation and they are long gone so all that’s left are a bunch of larger thumbnails, not sure what I will do with that yet…

The fun part for me is a few, like this one, were done in Modo and I haven’t used that in a while so remembering the settings and shortcuts was a mental refresher. Luckily Modo still runs for me, version 17.1 was a last and free upgrade from Foundry, now gone sadly. I really liked Modo, but all good things come to an end.

This is one of a Droid model I made some years back and I like it but the render I did back then was really dark and didn’t work well as a print, now I think it might.

Here’s a little preview of the model in question:

While this maybe useful in someone cafe or other public areas it is a real pain on home, school and work networks, because the router doesn’t know where your machine is. So you can’t access the machine via its name.

The solution is simple:

Turn off Private W-Fi address in System settings > Wi-Fi > Details

A privacy warning will show to worry people needlessly so ignore it.

Should you want it on in the cafe, just reverse the steps.

Open the run dialog with Win + R

Prefetch Folder

Type in Run box: prefetch

Select all the files and delete, Windows won’t allow you to delete protected currently used files so skip those.

User Temp Folder

In the Run type box: %temp%

Same procedure as above.

System Temp Folder

In the Run type box: %windir%\temp

And once more.

DNS Cache Flush

Open CMD as Administrator Ctrl Click +, then type:

ipconfig /flushdns

This fixes browser connection glitches.

There were a lot of older posts claiming you could turn off the RSS in sections frontmater and on in some other. This I found out to be a fallacy, all I managed was to turn it off totally or on totally.

The solution does not lay in the frontmater, at least not for me, it lies in the rss.xml file in the themes directory.

The full path to the file will be: <webroot>/themes/PaperMod/layouts/_default/rss.xml

This is of course for the PaperMod theme so your mileage may vary depending on your theme.

Once inside the file the line you are looking for is {{- range $pages }} on mine it was line 67 in the file.

Here is the surrounding code block:

    {{- with .OutputFormats.Get "RSS" }}
    {{ printf "<atom:link href=%q rel=\"self\" type=%q />" .Permalink .MediaType | safeHTML }}
    {{- end }}
    {{- range $pages }}
    {{- if and (ne .Layout `search`) (ne .Layout `archives`) }}

Once you have the line located you need to edit it to read as follows, (backup now):

{{ range where (where .Site.Pages ".Section" "post") "Kind" "page" }}

The .Section on mine was post, I have seen others use blog. It all depends on your setup, be prepared for a little trial and error, and remember that backup.

The net result of this is that only the post type of entry will end up in the RSS feed. The nice thing with HUGO is that you can check all this before deploying you blog updates. Vivaldi has a nice built in RSS reader that makes this very easy, just a tip, not a sales pitch.

Now remember the backup and don’t come crying to me if it all goes pear shaped. Your terminal will show you if there is an error, syntax or otherwise, so keep it in view.

I want to play more later and see about adding extra code to have an RSS for other parts of this blog, but that is for another day.

1 ALT SHIFT 2

So Numerator then alt shift then Denominator.

to open a specific Distro add it to the path, for example: \\wsl$\Debian

read -t 5 -p "press any key to resume, will exit in 5 sec ..."

The -t is the time in seconds and the -p is the pause followed by a message.