Web Development

Hugo Site Updated to a much newer version as it has been around 5 years since it was first installed. Actually got the idea for updating when I ran into problems with my old Hugo site where the site was losing the backround color. I built that site back in the 2020 time frame from a course titled “JAMStack: The Complete Guide” by Ray Viljoen. But first ran into Hugo back in 2019 and used this book In 2020 converted the site to using the information that was gained from taking Ray’s course....

The Joy of Building TinyNotes — A More Human Story of AI-Assisted Development I didn’t set out to build something complicated. In fact, TinyNotes is about as simple as it gets — a small notes app built with Next.js, SQLite, and a clean server-first approach. But what made this project interesting wasn’t the app itself. It was how it came together. It Started With a Course… and a Friction Point Like a lot of people exploring AI-assisted coding, I started with a course — Maximilian Schwarzmüller’s “Codex - The Practical Guide....

New Site picture has been generated using Stable Diffusion. This story continues from Hugo Update and you might want to read that story before continuing with this story. While Luke’s site was functional; the aesthetics left something less than pleasing. The next step was coming across a YouTube clip from Future Web Design and he had this one short clip on generating skeleton theme using this command: hugo new theme mytheme....

Taking a break from the Human Family and wanted to talk about installing Nextcloud on an Ubuntu-Server. Got the idea from a feed on Google News where this woman did just this. Her reason for doing this was being concerned about security as she is an author and didn’t want her work to become plagiarized. With the advent of AIchat scrapping information from the internet and then presenting it to a user she was concerned that storing her information on any cloud device could be vulnerable....

Livecode Server is the engine that uses Livecode Script in a Full Stack web application. The server engine works just like PHP where you can place tags in a web page in line with HTML. The server exectues the tags and outputs the results. Livecode’s high-level language is easier to get the job done than many lower level languages such as PHP, Python, C++, PERL, etc. Livecode built solution is easier to write and generally takes less code than these languages....

Using App on Digital Ocean is a newer service that they have started where it is possible to build, deploy, manage, and scale apps. Digital Ocean handles the infastructure, app runtimes, so that code can be pushed to production in just a few clicks. It has support for Node.js. Python, Go, PHP, Ruby, Static sites, and Docker. Below is the cost structure for using Digital Ocean’s App platform. As you can see it does seem to be a fairly reasonable cost structure and ceratinly being able to get started for free is something....

Post Addition is some documentation for add content to this site. A real simple way for doing this is using something like Netlify along with GitHub and a new post is automatically uploaded and published once the post is saved in the local text editor or it can be tied in with Netlify CMS and a post can be created live and pushed back to the GitHub repository and the local site....

Starter Site begins with installing Hugo on your developing computer. You can use all the popular platforms Windows, Apple, or Linux. Go to gohugo.io and you will find on the home page instructions for installing Hugo on your platform. If you plan on working with SASS then make sure you install the extended version. Once installed run this command: hugo version and you should get back something like this: Hugo Static Site Generator v0....

First Post is an introduction for this site. A key reason for starting this site is to put into practice what I have been learning concerning using Hugo. This is taken from their website: Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. With its amazing speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again. Not so sure that the fun part really jumps out since there has always been enjoyment for me creating websites....

Hugo Intro is a framework for building static websites that is open source and built using golang. It has a vibrant community and over 300 themes to get you started. The build speed is amazing and it can be used on any server or your favorite CDN. You don’t need any additional dependencies to run your website (no need to configure Python/PHP/Ruby or set up a database management system). It means the site can be hosted anywhere with little to no configuration at all....