Hugo

It has been almost an year since I finished my last project hosted on Azure so I thought it was time to experiment with it a bit and catch-up on “new” services I haven’t yet tried. One of those services was Azure Static Web Apps. Similar to any other Azure service, this one bundles everything one might need for hosting static web app and a bit more in a single service. This is the pattern we can see in other services within the Azure such as App Services, Function App, etc. They have this tendency to combine multiple things together under one service for easier ClickOps management. If you’re used to AWS or on-premises like I was, it can be odd and off-putting at first, but once you get used to it, I assure you, it is really amazing. ...

This is a short function I crafted recently to create a new Hugo article from within the Emacs. Until now, each time I wanted to create a new article, I had to spawn eshell and run hugo new command from there. In essence, it is really a dumb function, and has no notion of hugo commands, templates, structure, or anything for that matter. It assumes my own post structure and just inserts hard-coded template into appropriate place for my site. It prompts for name of the article which is just down-cased and spaces are replaced with dashes (-) in order to generate filename. ...

As you probably know, this website is based on an amazing static website generator Hugo. I’ve been more than happy ever since I switched to it more than two years ago. In the beginning, I deployed website directly from my local machine to the S3 and then invalidated Cloudfront cache as described in the article. This has been working well, but I had to automate it. Website is in Git and sometimes when I’d do something to it I would build and deploy the website, but sometimes forget to push to Git (as we all do, right? :-) ). This was especially tricky when certain edits were done on the desktop, and I realized I have a typo, misspelling or could have phrased something better while at my laptop and not at home. Who wants that kind of hassle… ...

Ever since I started this website I’ve some kind of way to leave a comment on the article, with a brief exception when I turned off the comments and then shortly turned them on again. In the beginning I used built-in system in Wordpress, then switched to Disqus, and at last decided to switch to Commento self-hosted system. Just when I switched to Commento, it seems that it became unmaintained, because at this point there have not been any updates for over 2 years. ...