New Year New You

Material just got an upgrade. For the website ostensibly focused on design this website and the related libraries around it have been something of a mess. I haven’t mentioned it yet, but working with the Material style library is something of a chore. This is in-part because of rather poor documentation, incomplete features, and bad supplementary libraries — the Material icon library that the documentation points to is riddled with missing icons, and yet they still show up as if you’re the one that messed up when they’re not there.

I’ve been playing a bunch of video games with my friends this year. You may be able to guess why. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been playing more Monster Hunter: World than I usually would.

Where I found Vim

I remember a time before I used a text editor, and when I didn’t know that plain text and formatted text were two distinct and different things. I didn’t start using Vim until after I had been introduced to IDE’s such as Visual Studio and Eclipse. I had even learned about other (albeit heavier) text editors; Sublime, Atom, and Notepad++ were all introduced to me, the University Student with a Windows Laptop.

Finishing Holiday Projects

I spent most of the end of this year working on a CD pipeline in Jenkins. If that doesn’t sound like your normal holiday activity… well I guess it really isn’t but maybe it should be. The holidays are a unique time of year where I get longer spans of uninterrupted free time. I had about a week of vacation left over so I decided that I’d spend the time setting up something I thought would be pretty nice: Hugo seems to be lightweight and simple, so to me it seemed like the perfect target to try automating.

It took me the whole week.

To Err is Human: Out of Order

Well it happened, I made a mistake on the internet. I’ve been working diligently on the “Build a Website” series, and what I expected would happen in my creation of a series of articles has happened. I wrote some of them out of order. This is a minor headache so I’ll share what I found.

Partials: the Bread and Butter

By now you should have most of the tools you need to work on your website, the configuration you’ll want for your site, and the bare basics of SCSS styling. We’re not far away from plugging along making posts left and right. After this article you should be able to basically get going with making content for your website.

What’s Up

I’ve been focused on the “Build a Website” series for this website, but I’ve also been putting a lot of effort into upgrading the look and feel of the website, while also fixing a few bugs on the way. I think that I’ll be doing this kind of an article every once in a while to try and summarize some of the things I’m either most proud of or most interested in.

Style!

In a previous article we set up Hugo, and got it running locally. If you didn’t do any styling, or download a Hugo theme, then your site probably looks pretty sad right now. In this article, I’ll go through how you can get SCSS and Material up and running for your Hugo site.

This is one of the first web projects that I’ve worked on for myself. Most other stuff I’ve worked on is enterprise-level stuff: .NET commerce portals, Reporting sites on MEAN stack, and .NET Framework stuff that originally used those Website Forms.

For a blogging site, you don’t really need all that. At worst you’re getting hit by a bunch of people once, and then they can get your sweet cached pages. Most of the time, you’re not getting a lot of traffic, and you don’t need a whole framework to handle that.