I’ve been using Hugo for a while now and love it. I don’t update my blog much and with Hugo I don’t need to spend more time updating the CMS than actually blogging. The markdown files are hosted at BitBucket along with my other code and I use CloudFlare for protection as well as a CDN.
Automating Hugo Deployments With Webhooks, Bitbucket, and CloudFlare
Disable Google Analytics While Running Hugo Test Server
So while I was writing my previous post I realized that Google Analytics was being called from the localhost server. I also had lots of grief with Disqus back when I migrated to Hexo; It filled my account with posts related to localhost. I wonder why Disqus built it this way.
I hard-coded the Disqus URL in my theme (Both Hexo and Hugo) but then realized I can’t do the same for Google Analytics. I needed a way to disable it altogether. The fix turned out to be quite simple.
Adding Oracle Support PHP On Ubuntu Xenial
Use Just What You Need Out Of Bootstrap And Similar Frameworks
If you know me, you’ll know I’m obsessed with speed. I like websites that are light and load quickly. At first I used WordPress because I knew how to optimize it and make it load quickly. I also used the GeneratePress theme because I loved how quickly it loaded. You can read this post to see why I migrated away.
Ghost introduced me to Markdown and I could never look back, but since I didn’t find any themes that I liked and the fact that Ghost looked as if it hadn’t been maintained in a while lead me to look for alternatives.
Allowing Read-Only Access To A Git Repository Via HTTP
Today I thought about a way to easily distribute an Ansible playbook. I thought about having a tgz file somewhere but I wanted read only access through HTTP in case I wanted to update clients that have already downloaded the content.
The easiest solution I have found was using cgit. Simply run it with nginx and fcgiwrap.
No Output From Drush
A while back Drush stopped working on my servers and it would just return without doing anything. Today I decided to finally debug the issue. Turns out the FreeBSD port just fetches the Phar archive and installs it.
After digging around I found the following post which says that Suhosin blocks Phar file execution. The fix turned out to be quite simple; Just edit the Suhosin ini file (in FreeBSD it’s /usr/local/etc/php/ext-30-suhosin.ini) and add the following after the “extension” line:
suhosin.executor.include.whitelist = phar
And you’re back in business :)
New Domain, Same Great Content
I’ve been wanting to get shami.blog ever since the generic TLDs have been introduced.
Now I finally have it, welcome to the new domain :).
XBOX LIVE With pfSense
A couple of months ago I switched from running OpenWRT on a TL-WDR4300 to running pfSense on a Netgate RCC-VE 2440. Not that OpenWRT is bad, it’s only because I’m a big fan of FreeBSD and I’ve been wanting to run a similar setup ever since I discovered custom firmware like DD-WRT and afterwards m0n0wall and Soekris. When I finally decided to get the hardware I thought Netgate had a better offering and I went for it.
Hexo Photo Gallery
So while I was migrating my data over from wordpress there were a few posts with photo galleries. The options I had were to write each photo gallery by hand or use the photos array in the front matter. What I did was change the photos array a bit and added the following code as a module
Responsive Youtube Videos With Hexo
So now that I have finally finished fixing my content migration issues I can get back to writing.
While checking my old posts I noticed embedded using the {% youtube %} tag looked like this: