tech

Quick Hits

Here are some notes that I haven’t fully fleshed out a whole post for, but want to keep track of…that’s the point of this whole thing isn’t it?

Update Academic theme to (renamed) Wowchemy

Updating Hugo themes is probably easy for most people, but I’ve managed to mess it up more than I’d like to admit. Here are the notes I took for this last update.

Adding a useful Table of Contents to Hugo sites

It’s probably apparent by now, but I’m pretty particular so using the simple Table of Contents that is already part of Hugo felt too easy. I am special and so my Table of Contents will be too.

Using images from Google Photos

I’ve been working to clean up some of the photos used in the blog I wrote while in Antarctica. I had to re-figure out how to utilize inline photos, so here are my notes.

Update colors in Academic Hugo theme

Here I go again with this blogging thing…but I noticed the Hugo theme I was using previously has not been updated in some time (…much like my blog…don’t judge). I will switch to the Academic theme but I prefer different colors, so I’ll change them.

Time to rethink my home network

I have not done much with my home network and it is starting to flake out, so I’m going to use that as an excuse to rethink (read: overcomplicate) it.

Windows VM on Fedora

I use Linux every day. And I have for quite a while now. But sometimes, large companies do not exactly cater to people in this demographic…so sometimes I need to spin up a Windows VM on my Linux system. Here is what I’ve found to work for me.

Update Pi-hole

Even after freeing up some space on my ancient Raspberry Pi, I was unable to update my Pi-hole installation. Here are notes on how I was able to get past that and install the latest version.

Increase disk space on DietPi

I have been unable to update my DietPi installation for some time now because of disk space constraints. I finally looked into it and here is what I found.

USB-C port cleanout

I don’t know about you, but I am tired of waking up to realize that my phone had not charged all night. Turns out, the fix is pretty easy.