Major's Machinations

I have been reworking my fork of BeautifulHugo to improve the results in Lighthouse and at this point one of the problems I am consistently running across is the performance impacts caused by Disqus. I was sort of hoping that there was some way (even if I had to pay for it) to utilize Disqus w/out needing to evoke a stack of privacy-tracking non-sense.. Alas, it looks like even if I paid (and trusted) Disqus to embed stacks of privacy invacive hooks into the site, their hooks are still so poorly written as to be a significant impact to any sort of page performance. [Read More]

I am a huge fan of fail fast view as part of my CI/CD, DevOps, and even general development practices. There are some pretty crazy ideas out there about when testing should be done, and I have known some developers whom insist that doing pre-commit and pre-push testing just slows down development. I always found this a little wild, I have never had pre-commit tests take that long, but I realize inexperienced programmers may very well be running their entire test suite on every commit. [Read More]

Now that I am done with my first pass of working with Hugo I still have areas to work on. One of the ones that is currently the most annoying to me is fixing the Cache Busting situation w/in the theme I picked. As I have not been able to locate a simple+direct way of moving all assets to leveraging Cache Busting names, I am stuck with doing some heavy lifting to the theme. [Read More]

Well, here is that notorious first post. Basically playing with Hugo in an attempt to see how well it fits my workflow patterns. So far I am relatively happy with the tool .. though I feel like the Quick Start tutorial leaves a little to be desired. It is entirely possible that I am a little too technically minded and I just want the CliffsNotes version. [read: I am not the target audience . [Read More]