Tiny barely-a-post today, was using a hacked together in MS Paint Favicon, decided to spruce up the effort ever so slightly, so went with a generated one through https://favicon.io/. I used the Text -> ICO generator with the Monoton font and my initials. It looks maybe less good in the tiny browser version but it’s neat enough for now. Neat! It looks better blown up so I may keep it in some degree within the blog itself (maybe a header?...
Something Missing This Way Comes The blog is starting to take form, and I’m realizing that blindly creating a blog without referencing other blogs / portfolios is showing that I really don’t know what needs to go into a blogfolio. So I started looking at other blogs. The blog part is largely there, thanks to the Hugo framework and the PaperMod theme. I’ve got entries that are easy to spin up in Markdown, an archive page to view old stuff by year and month, and a tags system that allows for filtering posts by general content....
Colors Nearing the end of the main customization train as I get settled, but I discovered the recommended way to customize the theme of papermod enough to change element colors. Thanks to this post on the PaperMod Repository, I was able to use the answer from danielfdickinson to make the customization file. It turns out with Hugo that you can override theme variables by generating a file at assets/css/extended called theme-vars-override....
More Bells, More Whistles Started poking around with some of the additional front-matter that PaperMod supports, as well as some additional site-wide parameters I can set. A few I stumbled upon that I decided to incorporate into the main config.yaml are: ShowPostNavLinks: true ShowToc: true TocOpen: false ShowReadingTime: true ShowPostNavLinks shows a navigation bar at the bottom to navigate between consecutive blog posts. Not sure I’m a huge fan of the formatting so I might see if I can tweak it later....
Getting started with this whole “Blog” thing Starting to play around with blog-writing, getting a format down for organizing the posts is quickly becoming key. Hugo lets you throw all sorts of pages under content in an easy to publish way, meaning I can control the structure of the project simply through the file structure. First Iteration The first attempt just threw everything (sure, I guess you could call a single post “everything”) under one “posts” folder, where the name of the post was the filename....