I having been playing around with Hugo to generate the site for a little while. There are still many things on the TODO list but I’m working through it.
One of the things I wanted to try was syntax highlighting. I want to eventually achieve a similar style to my Sphinx site. But first I need to work out how to do it.
At the beginning of 2021 I took the big step to move away from WordPress into the world of static site generators. I moved the whole site over to using Sphinx with the ABlog add on. This has been working well although I spent a lot of time trying to work out how to add customisation into the mix. This has was the most frustrating part. I knew the HTML/CSS I wanted to use to create the style elements I wanted but getting it into place where Sphinx was happy with it was more of a challenge than I was expecting.
This is my first blog post in some time so I’ll provide an update on a few things.
Why so long since the last update? I’ve been having a very busy time at work (healthcare) due to the ongoing impact of Covid-19 and additional responsibilities. I’ve lacked the enthusiasm to sit at the computer and work on things. Instead Netflix and Amazon Prime have taken over. Hopefully with the winter months approaching I will be at the computer a little more.
I’m currently experimenting with using rsync over ssh to update the site. My hope is that by having a scripted command to push updates to the site I can do them more often with less effort.
After my first attempt at running the command to upload this post I am happy to report that it worked and took seconds. This might be due to it being a file updated by ABlog rather than Sphinx as a whole.
Headings Some of the headings were a little oversized for the body text. Hopefully these are now a better size. I’ve also changed the font-weight back to bold to make them stand out.
Sphinx Build I was getting frustrated at the time it was taking Sphinx to build the site. I had been looking around for solutions/alternatives. It was only after digging into the build options and looking back over my Makefile that I found my bottleneck.
