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Hugo Blog Stack

howinterestingblog@duck.com (Chris Gillatt) — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In this post, I’ll describe the current stack of this very blog. Not only that, but it’s almost free to do. The only cost I face for is the domain, and I can even help with getting that for the lowest possible price too. If you don’t need a custom domain, the entire stack can be completely free!

Setting up Github comments on your blog with Giscus

howinterestingblog@duck.com (Chris Gillatt) — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Wait, what happened to Utterances?
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In my previous post, I described how to add a GitHub-based comments system to your blog using Utterances. In all the excitement of a free and open source comments platform for my blog, I forgot to check to see if it was still maintained, and it appears to have recently been mothballed. Utterances still works fine - for now, but it’s best practice to implement maintained dependencies.

Setting up Github comments on your blog with Utterances

howinterestingblog@duck.com (Chris Gillatt) — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been steadily migrating articles over from my old blogs over the past couple of weeks. It’s been a great excuse to look at some new (at least new to me) blog technologies and techniques. This one I like so much I thought I would share it with you all, and it’s a nice break from the older content I’ve been sifting through. This blog article is about how to use GitHub’s technology on your very own blog or website!

Blogging on a better blog on blogger, probably

howinterestingblog@duck.com (Chris Gillatt) — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Why would you even want to do such a thing? Well I will tell you.

Blocking adverts on the web - part one

howinterestingblog@duck.com (Chris Gillatt) — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Who enjoys seeing adverts? Anyone? Didn’t think so. Lets block them.

Emoji Support in Hugo

howinterestingblog@duck.com (Chris Gillatt) — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Emoji can be enabled in a Hugo site in a couple of different of ways.