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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. ...

That time again: End of the month once again and as usual I have been lapse in my blog posting. A combination of external distractions and a general lack of interest in everything at the moment. So, forcing myself, I have managed to do a last minute post, the image fits my lack of energy and I had fun making it, so all good. I don’t suppose next month will be any different as I seem to be in somewhat of a rut. Having said that I do like September and the end of the school holidays, which is a welcome change. ...

Lack Of Interest I haven’t posted in a while and missed June completely, I could come up with some esoteric reason but the truth is I just couldn’t be arsed. I have a lot of external things on my mind at the moment and writing a post for the web isn’t high on my list of things to do. That said I do hold with the idea of posting regularly even it isn’t anything of particular import. ...

Some virtual fruit brought back to life Some years ago, back when I still using Modo as my daily driver, what a stupid term, as my main modelling tool, that’s better, I made some fruit models. I have been making a few icons for my stuff over the last years and thought it would be nice to bring the old fruit models over and freshen them up for use in Blender. ...

Moving Instances For no particular reason I have decided to move Mastodon instances: from fosstodon.org to graphics.social Okay partially it was due to my posting: I tend to post 3d renders and graphics and so it felt more fitting to be on an instance that appears to be ostensibly more graphical than software. Also I know a few folk on there and so assumed it would be a good fit. ...

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. ...

This month has been an unadulterated mess, geopolitically, but I am not here to post about that, politics are one thing I try to keep off line there is more than enough Troll fodder out there already. It has however been very nerving and frankly bewildering. So much of a distraction in fact I ended the month with little more than a pot, that’s it a pot. Perhaps because the whole month has been so damned potty. ...

I started the new year playing with some image textures for my models, in particular metal and rust: Example maps used above As an example of some of the textures I made here is a Steel and Rust one used on the shader ball I made. If you wish you can right-click and download them and use them on your own work as you please: ...

This year I went with a dark grey suit and hat, with the addition of a little colour in the form of the Christmas tree badge. Here is a copy of the Christmas tree in the SVG format, feel free to copy and use as you wish. Almost certainly this will be the last post of the year and so I wish you a peaceful Yuletide.