Cache Hugo modules in Drone CI
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Today I modified my theme to use Twemoji for emojis. To add the SVG files to the theme, I used a Hugo module mount in the config of my theme:
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Welcome to the Dev section of my blog with development related articles.
βsans-serifβ only
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I used to use system fonts for my blog theme, but I rethought this decision and converted to the following font-family in my CSS:
Backup a dockerized Postgres database with Resticker
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I got the question how to solve the problem that when backing up the storage of a dockerized Postgres database (using Resticker) it could be that the backup is corrupt because the database is still running.
Use Telegram as a notification service with Go
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Telegram is my favorite messenger for chatting. There are many reasons for this. But Telegram is also very suitable to use it as a notification service for your own projects. For example I get a daily overview of the number of page views of my blogs, but also notifications about new Webmentions, or likes and announcements via ActivityPub are sent to me via Telegram.
How I use the Speech Synthesis API on my blog
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I just added the feature to my blog that allows you to have any article read to you. For some articles I already add an MP3 file with a natural sounding pronunciation, but now it is also possible to get articles read aloud that donβt have an MP3 file (if the browser and operating system support this).
Find broken links on your website with muffet
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Today I wanted to check if my blog contains some broken links and it actually did. I used the Go-based tool muffet which crawls a website and checks for HTTP errors when following links. To speed up the process, I started a local Hugo server and used the following command for muffet (after installing it):
Using the Google Text-to-Speech API to create audio versions for blog posts
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AshwΓαΉ VΓshnΓΊ asked how I created the audio version for my latest post. Hereβs a way how you can use the Google Text-to-Speech API to create MP3s from text. A simple way to try this API without a Google Cloud account is to follow these steps:
Pure CSS Lightbox in Hugo theme
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Hugo themes have the option to override the default rendering of Markdown images by using βMarkdown Render Hooksβ since version 0.62.0. By creating a file in layouts/_default/_markup named render-image.html it is possible to use a custom template for rendered images. This gives a lot of flexibility. I just used that flexibility to create a lightbox with pure CSS (without using JavaScript, like many lightbox implementations do). After clicking (or tapping) on an content image, you will see it filling the browser view. Another click brings you back to the content.
Adding ActivityStreams representations to Hugo
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I promised and people already asked, so here is the first part of the documentation about how I enabled ActivityPub support on my Hugo-based blog:
How I automatically create my blogroll
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I just updated my blogroll and thought that it might be a great idea to share my workflow to do exactly that. I use Miniflux a lot. Using Miniflux, I read all the blogs and get all the news, get updates from all the YouTubers and even subscribe to some Mastodon accounts (fediverse microblogs). I use multiple categories to sort the feeds. One of those categories is βBlogsβ with all the blogs, which I also list on my blogroll.