I came across this great piece on the act of blogging. Since I started pursuing blogging as a practice, it’s been a very rewarding experience. But my drafts and ideas list is ever growing and my output of substantive content is decreasing proportionately.
I’ve learnt a lot from the simple act of setting up my blog in the first instance: from quality learnings about internet networking through to the dreaded menagerie of tooling that frontend developers call ’the web’. But I can’t deny I spend far too much time blogging about blogging than I do actually blogging (this post is no exception).
MathJax v4.0 has been released!
I just integrated MathJax v3 with Hugo last night for this blog to start writing some maths posts, and v4 is released today…
I’m hoping it improves rendering though, I was seeing some issues with SVG output for inline formulae in Safari. KaTeX is neat and fast, but I find the quality of the typesetting to be quite sub-par compared to MathJax.
This blog has been featured by GitHub!*
Well, sort of.
To publish posts to this blog, I’m abusing GitHub’s excellent Issue tracking capability. I have a GitHub Issue Form Template at .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/new-blog-post.yml which gives me a nice template to complete with fields like blog title, date, section etc.
The form template automatically labels the issue as a new-blog-post which triggers a GitHub Actions workflow to (very hackily) dump the contents of the Issue into a Markdown file and commit.