https://shiggan.github.io/mad.geek.nz/ Recent content on mad.geek.nz Hugo -- gohugo.io en Thu, 13 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://shiggan.github.io/mad.geek.nz/blog/2020/02/getting-started-hugo-3-of-3/ Thu, 13 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://shiggan.github.io/mad.geek.nz/blog/2020/02/getting-started-hugo-3-of-3/ Picking up from last time we have a site that runs fine locally; now its time to throw it up on github; there are however a couple of gotchas. Github Pages likes to serve up a branch; and hugo likes to publish to a folder. Thanks to a git trick below we will be able to do both. So we have our demo site we have been working on; time to put that to a side for now (you can set it on fire later) we are going to step through the process to get a hugo site served up and running on Github Pages. https://shiggan.github.io/mad.geek.nz/blog/2020/02/getting-started-hugo-2-of-3/ Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://shiggan.github.io/mad.geek.nz/blog/2020/02/getting-started-hugo-2-of-3/ Picking up from last time we have a dirt simple hugo site; applying a simple theme, now we are going to maake a couple of customisations to the template. Next in this series Getting Started Hugo 3 of 3 Wild Assumptions You have a Google Analytics (GA) account; ready to go. Background Information Partial templates have a specific lookup order (see the official documentation on Partials for details); tldr Hugo will look in the ‘local’ directory first then the theme directory e. https://shiggan.github.io/mad.geek.nz/blog/2020/01/getting-started-hugo-1-of-3/ Sat, 25 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://shiggan.github.io/mad.geek.nz/blog/2020/01/getting-started-hugo-1-of-3/ This will be the first post in a short series about getting started with hugo. By the end of this you will have a dead simple proof of concept site which we will build on in later posts. Next in this series Getting Started Hugo 2 of 3 Getting Started Hugo 3 of 3 Static site generators such as Hugo are great for sites that don’t have any particular reason for dynamic (database driven) content; or for simple sites where the ‘dynamic’ content you do have rarely changes. https://shiggan.github.io/mad.geek.nz/blog/2020/01/hello-world/ Sun, 05 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://shiggan.github.io/mad.geek.nz/blog/2020/01/hello-world/ The inaugural ‘first post’; literally nothing much to see untill some actual content is pushed in. One of my favorate technical people has this saying: There are a finite number of keystrokes left in your hands before you die. - @shanselman That is what this site is about … well that and that I freely admit to being lazy; just ask yourself how many times have you googled the same damned thing you did some time ago having to re click-through all of the random pages in order to groc (hopefully) most of the context you got last time in order to move on with a piece of work.