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Packages from Chocolatey community repo that I might wanna try sometime

By using just a thumbnail image of a video you can significantly speed up page load times on pages with multiple embedded Youtube videos. Here’s how.

Some brief notes on getting a new laptop.

A list of places to find projects to work on to improve your CSS.

A bit about scroll animation and JS libraries to use

So this is a file to test out using Nano. There is another file called just nano.md here too. What does “write out” mean? It means saving the file bizarrely enouth. So this is a justified paragraph. What does it mean in a text editor context. When I get to the end of this line I’ll find out. So one question might be what’s the advantages over Vim? The GNU nano, commonly known as ‘nano,’ is an improved project of the Pico text editor, which was released in 1999. Read more...

Nano is a CLI editor like vim that comes with bash. It’s with both Linux and the git-bash program. Nano is supposedly easier to learn than vim. You can open or create a file using nano path/to/file and start editing. The menu use ^G for instance where the ^ just means press Ctrl key at the same time. Using ^x is to exit where you are. You might be prompted to save first. Read more...

notes and links on Windows..

My experience setting up Windows Sub system for Linux v.2, inc installing programs and getting snap to work.

Why? Many of the better CLI tools, such as Babun, seem to be stopping development. WSL has now reached version 2 that is far more performant than the first version. It generally gets good reviews from all around. Linux and Windows Note that Windows “does not know about” the Linux file system, but Linux can access all the files in Windows. By default Windows file system is mounted in Linux at /mnt/c/. Read more...

New websites, video channels on the web that could be interesting.

How Hugo’s render hooks work with images

Various random notes on things that interest me.

This is probably a little out of date now - from 2018. The nps used has not been updated since 2020 and with the rise of tools like Vite and Snowpack plus Hugo’s own js.Build there probably better ways. Leo’s Hugo Template Example Project In this project we work with [nps](https://www.npmjs.com/package/nps). Therefore we have beside the obligatory package.json a file called package-scripts.js. Due to it’s .js format we can comment all our tasks which would not be possible in package. Read more...

Adding to a Hugo theme with modules.