Mandaris

Small but significant update to the plugin so that it can handle exceptions as defined in Hugo v0.141.0. I didn’t really notice this when it came out and was very happy that Bryce Wray already had a fix in his theme repository.

Here’s a link to the git repository for the plugin.

Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow: @catsalad@infosec.exchange

Latest Checkers update just dropped ⛀️⁠⛁️⁠⛂️⁠⛃️

6:48 PM • April 17, 2025 (UTC)

Happy stooting!

I do not know where they are going to go from here. I feel that all the actors really did a great job doing their individual roles. I found them to be believable on a lot of levels. But, I don't feel excited about visiting The White Lotus again in the future.

The White Lotus is like a sugary treat. It’s nice but you shouldn’t eat too much of it.

This season promised and delivered more of the same things that we saw in other seasons; people behaving poorly in exotic location.

I’m ok with that, because it’s part of the shows DNA. It takes a spotlight to the inequities involved with these vacation resorts. Other have written about this so much better than I have, so I won’t go into details¹.

I felt the acting was amazing in this, but overall the season felt rushed and yet too long at the same time. I later found out that some things were edited out of the show due to our current political climate and maybe that’s what I’m needing to get this show over the top.

Overview

Set at a luxurious wellness resort in Thailand, the lives of wealthy guests and dedicated staff intertwine in unexpected ways. The season explores themes of privilege, personal transformation, and cultural contrasts, all set against the backdrop of stunning locales and intricate social dynamics.

I've been working on an update for my website theme to scratch a technical curiosity I was feeling related to authorship of individual posts in comparison to the entire site. After reading a couple resources, I decided to ask on the Hugo forums if there was an ideal way to add author information. I kept running into an issues and figured that it might be related to the version change.

Here are the warning messages if you want to read over them.

WARN  The "gist" shortcode was deprecated in v0.143.0 and will be removed in a future release. See https://gohugo.io/shortcodes/gist for instructions to create a replacement.
WARN  The "twitter", "tweet", and "twitter_simple" shortcodes were deprecated in v0.142.0 and will be removed in a future release. Please use the "x" shortcode instead

I have flashbacks of when I was working with another static site generator called Pelican that I enjoyed for many years until one day I did an update¹ that took the site down because I had to find fixes for all the different components that weren’t working anymore.

On some levels, I understand that I don’t need to upgrade and that’s part of why I’m on my current hosting provider. The point of my blog is to communicate with the World Wide Web, get my thoughts together, and fulfill that part of me that likes to create. I feel that some of the things that I create for this blog are only used during the creation and never utilized afterwards.

What’s frustrating about these warnings are they are related to shortcodes built into Hugo itself. They are part of the documentation and examples that Hugo has to showcase what the project can do. I feel that it’s a real help when writing an article to avoid pasting the larger and larger code blocks used to embed something into a post. But with the changing technical and political landscapes, I can see why these changes are coming.

I’m sad.

Further bitrot.

I’ve already removed most if not all of the twitter links on my site and based on the last time I checked traffic, no one was reading it anyway. The gist changes are a little sadder for me because I was using them as reference in some of my favorite posts and I feel that people still read those.

But, I’m not updating the version today

The current version on the server is 0.117 and that’s been really solid. There is a version .140 that’s available but I wasn’t able to get it working.

Problem for stoot

I was able to take a code sample from Bryce last year and make it a plugin for Micro.blog users and I named it stoot after the shortcode that Bryce used for it. Unfortunately, it’s now giving me an error in my local environment.

The following is a truncated snippet of the error.

ERROR render of "/" failed: failed to render shortcode "stoot": failed to process shortcode: "/Users/mandaris/Code/local-hugo/themes/stoot/layouts/shortcodes/stoot.html:13:28": execute of template failed: template: _shortcodes/stoot.html:13:28: executing "_shortcodes/stoot.html" at <$urlToGet>: can't evaluate field Err in type resource.Resource
---
toot.html:13:28: executing "_shortcodes/stoot.html" at <$urlToGet>: can't evaluate field Err in type resource.Resource: Resource.Err was removed in Hugo v0.141.0 and replaced with a new try keyword, see https://gohugo.io/functions/go-template/try/

And yes, it did say toot.html even though it was from stoot.html. One problem at a time!!

The code in question:

{{- with resources.GetRemote $urlToGet  -}}
	{{ if (resources.GetRemote $urlToGet).Err }}

Next action(s)

I’ve decided that my next actions will be the following.

1. Ignore the gist issue. It’s marked for a future release and there are directions on how to replace it. I have a about a handful of examples in my test suite of content (mostly the same code but on different pages)
2. Learn how to keep multiple copies of Hugo local so that I can test this kind of thing easier.
3. Learn how get replacement to work according to the error message.

I heard about this book📚 on episode 757 of The Incomparable podcast. It seemed like a nice little distraction and was a nice little adventure.

The book description states that it’s part of a wider universe, but I feel the story is mostly self contained with an option to make it the start of a larger series. The author has even set up a webpage that contains information about the book. I especially like the Notes on influence section.

He even has a video on making the script for the novel.

So check it out if you want to do a little light reading.

Overview

Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future adventure. It is eleven thousand years from now. A lot has happened, and yet a lot is still very familiar. Ariel is a boy in a remote village under a wizard’s rule. Like many adventurers before him, Ariel is called to explore a world full of eye-popping discoveries and challenges: unknown enemies, a mission to rescue the world, a girl. Here, as they say, be dragons. But none of this happens before Ariel encounters an entity from an earlier civilization, a sentient, sensitive artificial intelligence with a special perspective on all of human history—who becomes both Ariel’s greatest ally . . . and our narrator. Moonbound is an adventure into the richest depths of Story itself from the creator of the Penumbraverse, Robin Sloan. It is a deeply satisfying epic of ancient scale, blasted through the imaginative prism of one of our most forward-thinking writers. And this is only the beginning.

I’ve switched to another theme so that I could feel that I can make more drastic changes and customizations without worrying about effecting other people.

I’m calling this version 1.4.0 and would like to know what others think.

Key changes in this one are as follows:

• Change the font to Atkinson Hyperlegible
• Make the index only show the posts with titles
• Attempt to remove h-feed from single pages
• Correct header values on archive page
• Add view-transition to meta tag in header
• Change default OpenGraph image to not have words
• Remove border and filter around <figure>
• Add margin-top and change line-height on <figcaption>

I’ve got two other major changes that I’m still working on. Really highlights why you should do branching for both personal and professional projects.

Upcoming projects

• Author page
• Share buttons using the webshare api
• Changes to stoot due to Hugo method deprecation