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Recent or featured articles

Creating base VM images

On using Packer to create the base images Daniel uses for personal ‘cloud’ infrastructure.

By Daniel F. Dickinson on November 16, 2022

Privacy update

I’ve enhanced privacy and updated the privacy policy upon discovering ‘issues’

By Daniel F. Dickinson on October 18, 2022

Back to OVH

This ‘migratory nerd’ has moved back to OVH for hosting

By Daniel F. Dickinson on October 13, 2022

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

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