Yes, you can have an interactive search feature on your static site! No need for servers or paid subscriptions here. Thanks to the open source Lunr and the power of Hugo static site generator, you can create a client-side search index with just a template and some JavaScript.
A number of my readers …
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You can use a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) site builder like Carrd to create a simple single page site, like a list …
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The web that raised me was a digital playground in the truest sense. It was made up of HTML experiments frankensteined together by people still figuring it all out.
The beauty of not completely knowing what you’re doing is a lack of premature judgement. Without a standard to rise to, …
Just a friendly Friday reminder to write good docs. 👇
What would you keep track of in a personal CHANGELOG?
I’m asked this question a lot, so let me be the first to give you the good news: there’s no one right answer. As general tech-literacy increases, the culture of the coding industry is steadily, thankfully, moving away from a checklist approach. Instead of degrees and pre-requisites when …
When choosing your new product name, you can save yourself a lot of grief by asking, “What would this sound like if someone verbed it?”
If you’re trying to turn on GitHub Pages for a Hugo theme repository, the configuration files in your theme might make GitHub Pages (Jekyll, really) confused. I successfully got GitHub Pages to serve the site using the README.md after adding a _config.yml file for Jekyll with:
exclude: [ …As a Director of Engineering, I’m a software developer who hires and leads other software developers. It’s not surprising then that I get asked this question a lot, in various forms:
- How do I become a software developer?
- What language or framework should I learn first?
- Where do I start?
While I’m …
