Git ignore files So I’ve been trying to make my way through Progit. I have accumulated a whole lot of information so far and I was afraid for how not so often I used it. That I was going to forget it all. Hence my decision to share some of that with you, and with my future self.
In this post we’ll look at something you probably have never read about in isolation, gitignore files.
Dumped blogger I set up a site on blogger (Google’s blogspot) and dumped it for a Hugo design that caught my eye. I thought I could learn some css building it myself. Feel good from doing it myself from scratch. But boy is CSS boring! And I only realized this after 4 hours of centering divs and hunting for unclosed tags.
Now the day had almost come to an end and I was feeling guilty for the waste that it’d been.
Python comes pre-installed on most Linux distros. But if for whichever reason it isn’t installed on yours, we’ll install it in the next section.
First, let’s update and upgrade your system
If you are on Ubuntu, run:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade For Arch, run:
sudo pacman -Syu Fedora:
sudo dnf upgrade Now let’s install python (plus some extra packages you will most definitely eventually need when using python)
Hugo uses the excellent Gohtml/template library for
its template engine. It is an extremely lightweight engine that provides a very
small amount of logic. In our experience that it is just the right amount of
logic to be able to create a good static website. If you have used other
template systems from different languages or frameworks you will find a lot of
similarities in Go templates.
Step 1. Install Hugo Go to Hugo releases and download the appropriate version for your OS and architecture.
Save it somewhere specific as we will be using it in the next step.
More complete instructions are available at Install Hugo
Step 2. Build the Docs Hugo has its own example site which happens to also be the documentation site you are reading right now.
Follow the following steps:
Clone the Hugo repository Go into the repo Run hugo in server mode and build the docs Open your browser to http://localhost:1313 Corresponding pseudo commands:
