Terminal Colors with Highlight.js

This is another post where I’m working on Hugo capabilities. This time, though, I’m mostly dealing with expanding highlight.js, which is the highlighting tool used by the PaperMod theme. Terminal in color This shows my terminal prompt in approximately the colors that I see. gvollink@javavm [GIT: (✅) master]:0 🏠/src/web/hugo-blog$ The above, in source, has embedded ANSI escape codes. To do this I created a language called terminal for highlight.js and an accompanying PlugIn....

25 May 2022 · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Trying Hugo

This is a post where I’m literally doing nothing but testing hugo to see if it will work for what I need. Turns out, it works pretty well. Here are some features I’m likely to use. Sub With Code Trying a sub-topic my $test = MyStuff->new(); if ( ! $test ) { printf {*STDERR} "Error.\n"; } Final Thoughts It took me over a week to figure out how to extract what I needed from my old Google blogger account, and now that I’ve done that, I’m … happy enough … with the results....

16 May 2022 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Stopping Regular Book Blog

For over a year, I have published a book review every other week, on Wednesday, at noon.  Every week in the middle of both summers. Reading for review My wife is a librarian, and when I started this blog, it was partly a way for me to share something about the numerous pre-release books that she and I would get when we went to book events.  Also, when I started, doing this was fun, and I figured that if I were any good at it, maybe I would reach other readers....

6 Oct 2019 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Book Review Feedback Request

I have gone through and updated tags on all existing and future book reviews, with the hope they may be easier to find in the future. First, all book reviews (even short ones) now include the tag book-reviews.  That is, if I'm telling you what I think about a book, it is a book review.  There are also short-book-reviews on some. If my general impression of a book is that I enjoyed it, I've included the tag, recommend....

10 Jan 2019 · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink