Russell Jones's blog now runs a fully automated GitHub Actions workflow, Content Autopilot, that mines project activity, uses Claude Code headless in CI to curate and write Hugo posts, and publishes t…
A developer has automated posting blog entries with companion comment threads on PopsicleBoat, using a script that scaffolds a Hugo page bundle and a git commit hook to wire the thread URL into the po…
Technical writers must shift their value proposition to survive the AI era, according to a career survival guide. Writers should prove they can handle the entire AI workflow by focusing on information…
Popsicle Boat, a commenting system for static sites, now supports comments with two redirects, enabling readers to submit comments via a plain HTML form that POSTs to Popsicle Boat's endpoint, which p…
A developer published a blog post and two shell scripts, new-post and companion-prompt, that automate scaffolding Hugo weblog posts and wiring comment threads on Popsicle Boat. The scripts prompt for …
Jake Bauer's blog now publishes posts with a comment section baked into the static page, using a custom integration with Popsicle Boat that fetches replies at build time and updates via Netlify build …
A developer explains how to add Microsoft Clarity to a Hugo site using Cloudflare Zaraz, eliminating the need to rebuild and redeploy the site for analytics changes. The setup moves the Clarity script…
Darby, a new Hugo theme for technical documentation, features an in-browser AI Q&A system that requires no back end or API keys, according to its developer. The theme offers dark mode, search, callout…
Daniel used Glaze, an AI-powered app builder, to create a custom editor for his Hugo-based blog on GitHub Pages. The editor integrates front-matter editing, image compression, selective file commits, …
Developer and real estate entrepreneur Michael Barrasso launched Unique Homes Massachusetts, a static website built with Hugo and hosted on Cloudflare Pages, to showcase historically significant prope…
A developer describes building a static site generator from scratch after finding existing frameworks too restrictive, coining the term 'yak shaving' from a Ren & Stimpy episode. The post warns agains…
The Open Knowledge Format (OKF) v0.1, an open specification for representing metadata and curated knowledge in a portable, markdown-based format, was introduced today to address the fragmentation of i…
Sebastian De Deyne argues that lower-level languages like Go are becoming more viable as AI tools handle the complexity of writing code, reducing the pain of their "crudeness." The developer, who rece…
The article discusses the growing fragmentation of code forges as users and companies migrate from GitHub to alternatives like Codeberg, Forgejo, and GitLab. It highlights key concerns such as trackin…
The article describes a small Rust-based back-end system called "upvoters," created to handle anonymous upvotes on static blogs, with compatibility for Hugo. The author also mentions recent website de…
The article announces a website redesign for the new year, replacing the Hugo framework with a custom static site generator. It also details the switch from Disqus to Giscus for comments, citing Disqu…
The article describes the author's creation of a Hugo-based "planet" aggregator after migrating from WordPress, as existing planet software was outdated or difficult to implement. Using Anthropic's Cl…
The author attempted to upgrade their Debian server from Buster to a newer version but encountered a critical failure when installing a new package, which removed libcrypt and locked them out of the s…
The article explores the concept of "friction" as a force that can either hinder or help personal change, depending on how it is managed. The author uses the example of publishing a personal website, …
The article explains how to highlight the active menu item in a Hugo website by ensuring menu URLs end with a trailing slash. The author describes creating a custom theme with a navbar defined in `hug…