Personal blog

Initial setup

On a first clone, you'd wanna do it this way

git clone -b hugo https://codeberg.org/dminca/pages.git

Then we have to pull the theme which is installed with hugo

hugo mod get -u

Local development

Before pushing on the hugo branch which is our 'production' (so-to-speak), you'd wanna test out your changes quickly locally.

After adding content or modifying anything in the blog, compile it

hugo --gc --buildDrafts --minify

This makes sure that the blog can be rendered and it's also compacting the CSS and JavaScript in order to have a smaller footprint on the web.

Run the server locally and see how it looks

hugo serve --buildDrafts -p 8080

Now head-off to http://localhost:8080 and check if all okay

Assets (media and all that)

They're tracked with git-lfs which I've installed via

brew install git-lfs

And then initialised it

git lfs install

Tracking files

git lfs track "*.png"

Commit the .gitattributes file and done.

How does the CI handle that?

That flag's enabled by default in Woodpecker CI

Troubleshooting

template for shortcode not found

⋊> ~/P/c/d/pages on hugo ◦ hugo -D --gc --minify && hugo serve --gc -D -p 8080
Start building sites … 
hugo v0.101.0+extended darwin/arm64 BuildDate=unknown
Error: Error building site: "/Users/dminca/Projects/codeberg.org/dminca/pages/content/posts/awesome-foss-tooling.md:24:1": failed to extract shortcode: template for shortcode "button" not found
Total in 47 ms

Can be resolved by clearing the hugo module cache

hugo mod clean