I have a dynamic IP address, and every time it changes I had to
manually go into Matomo (a free
and open-source self-hosted Google Analytics alternative that is
endorsed by the EU and has GDPR-compliant
privacy tools), check to see if it logged any of my own visits,
delete them in the GDPR tools, and update my IP in the general
website settings. It was moderately annoying to do, and after doing
this every once and a while for a year I wanted to …
One issue with using static site generators that use templates
like Hugo is that their generated
HTML files are often incredibly messy, with bad indentation, tons
of unneeded whitespace, and overall unconcise formatting. While it
is technically possible to fix this in your templates, it
takes a lot of effort, makes your templates less readable, and
frankly is a waste of time.
To my knowledge, Hugo and most other generators don’t have
built-in beautifiers. The reasoning for this is usually …
As I was building the currenta previous
version of this website, I came across an issue. In the previous
version of the site which I made with Nuxt.js, a Vue.js-based JavaScript web development
framework similar to the React-based Next.js, I used markdown-it
for rendering my Markdown content. The great thing about
markdown-it was how extensible it is: there are a vast
number of available npm packages that extend its functionality
beyond the base CommonMark
…
