02 May
3 min
Building an about page in Hugo without touching single.html
How to use Hugo's layout key to give a standalone page its own template, rather than bending a shared layout with conditionals.
Tagged devops
8 posts about devops.
01 May
3 min
Validating Hugo front matter with node:test
A lightweight, zero-dependency test that walks your Hugo content tree and catches broken image paths before they reach production.
27 Apr
6 min
Adding copyright watermarks to images with Hugo's asset pipeline
How to stamp a copyright notice onto every image at Hugo build time using images.Text — including the font trap, the shadow technique for readability, and how to keep multiple shortcodes in sync.
27 Apr
6 min
Embedding GPS photo markers at build time with Hugo
How to replace browser-side EXIF GPS reading with a pre-build Node script that embeds coordinates directly in the HTML — faster maps, no async loading, no browser EXIF parsing.
27 Apr
5 min
Hugo image processing gotchas: what the docs don't warn you about
A collection of non-obvious traps in Hugo's image processing pipeline: the ASCII-only default font, the strings.TrimLeft argument order, stale image caches, and why two shortcodes processing the same image can produce different URLs.
26 Apr
10 min
Building a GPS photo map with Hugo, Leaflet, and exifr
How to build an interactive map for a Hugo static site that reads GPS coordinates directly from image EXIF data and plots photo markers alongside a GPX route — with all the gotchas.
02 Oct
1 min
Moving to Hugo
Switching the blog to Hugo on GitHub Pages after years on various platforms.
15 Jan
2 min
Getting the latest snapshot from Sonatype Nexus
A Ruby script to parse the Nexus REST API and reliably fetch the latest snapshot artifact, sidestepping the timestamped filename problem.