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Updating spaces to tabs

In code, choosing spaces over tabs creates accessibility barriers. The developer ‘Holy Wars’ ignore this.

By Daniel F. Dickinson on August 9, 2022

Hugo DFD metadata image handling

Hugo module for handling images in metadata (e.g. ‘social cards’ using Open Graph and Twitter Cards)

By Daniel F. Dickinson on August 7, 2022

Where have all the pictures gone

… each of my posts has usually sported a big ol’ hero image as the background for the post’s title, description, and date-of-issuance info. That, too, has been limiting and even delaying, even if only as a lame excuse on my part. After all, it’s not always possible to find a freebie stock photo that has even a tangential connection to a post’s subject(s). (Bryce Wray in a post about CTCAJW mode)

By Daniel F. Dickinson on July 30, 2022

Making the postmodern web

Observations on what you need to build a website that will be found: a presentation for the Midland MakerPlace. Unfortunately it’s been a slow summer at the MakerPlace and there were no attendees. Hopefully a future offering will get better take-up.

By Daniel F. Dickinson on July 23, 2022

Dananke theme for Hugo

The intent of the Dananke theme is to provide a fairly complete framework for Daniel F. Dickinson’s Hugo sites with important features, and including best practices for performance and accessibility.

By Daniel F. Dickinson on July 13, 2022

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