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VERIFICATION ON MASTODON

28 January 2023 — 1 min read
#mastodon  #website  Mastodon is a free, open-source decentralized social media
platform with nice people

With the demise of 3rd party Twitter clients such as Tweetbot (and with it my
use of Twitter itself), I’ve started using Mastodon as an alternative. One of
the capabilities it offers is verification of links added to your profile. There
are a couple of ways to do this, and I’ve settled on what I think is a nice
clean method.

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GOATCOUNTER

02 January 2023 — 2 min read
#hugo  #website  GoatCounter is an open source privacy-friendly web analytics
platform

I haven’t really told anyone about this blog as it’s more of a project to give
me somewhere to do something technical rather than a place I want to drive
traffic to. Even so, as I write more content, it would be nice to see more
traffic arrive organically at the site. To track how this grows over time, I’ve
enabled GoatCounter on the site…

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FONT AWESOME

02 January 2023 — 2 min read
#hugo  #website  The clue is in the name!

While in the process of writing my (currently unpublished) About page, one of
the things I wanted to add were icons for the links to my various social media
profiles. I could add these as images, but I figured it might be cool to add
Font Awesome to the blog. Turns out it’s actually very simple to do…

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ARCHETYPES ARE REALLY USEFUL

26 December 2022 — 2 min read
#hugo  #website  Having an easily repeatable pattern removes friction from a
task

One of the reasons I feel have failed to blog at all over the past 4 years is
that the barrier to entry was too high. Rather than focusing on writing content,
I would spend lots of time trying to remember how to use the tools, get
frustrated, and give up. Some of this friction can be removed with a handy Hugo
feature called Archetypes.

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SWEATING THE SMALL STUFF - PART 1

25 December 2022 — 4 min read
#website  Sweating the small stuff makes all the difference

I am much more enthusiastic about this site since the theme change! I would say
it satisfies about 95% of what I would have created myself had I the skills to
do so!

There are a few things I would like to change to take care of that final 5%.
Here’s how I tackled a couple of them.

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