technology

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.

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.

Converting a WordPress blog to Hugo

As I’ve discussed in other places, I’ve tried quite a few times to have a blog. That sounds pretty simple, but here are some notes on converting one of those blogs which was a hosted WordPress blog.

Check VPN connectivity from command line

I pay TorGuard (affiliate link) for VPN services. Mainly because sometimes I do some shady shit (that’s alliteration). No matter what I’m doing, it is often worthwhile to see how my web browsing traffic looks to the outside world. So here are some notes on how I can check that from a command line.