diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | archetypes/default.md | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | content/about/_index.md | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | content/about/programming.md | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | content/stream/2022_07_26.md | 2 |
4 files changed, 34 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/archetypes/default.md b/archetypes/default.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f1c28a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/archetypes/default.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +--- +title: "{{ replace .Name "-" " " | title }}" +date: {{ .Date }} +draft: true +--- + + diff --git a/content/about/_index.md b/content/about/_index.md index 6d403ed..6520bb8 100644 --- a/content/about/_index.md +++ b/content/about/_index.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ draft: false Yulqen is a deliberate misspelling of an [Autechre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autechre) song I like. -I currently live in [Berwick-upon-Tweed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwick-upon-Tweed). I enjoy technology & software (the free, as in speech, kind), programming, music, photography, rugby, animals, poetry and books. I am something of a minimalist and do most things in a terminal. I am a pescatarian but will eat meat if sufficiently drunk and (apparently) starving. +I currently live in [Berwick-upon-Tweed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwick-upon-Tweed). I enjoy technology & software (the free, as in speech, kind), [programming](programming), music, photography, rugby, animals, poetry and books. I am something of a minimalist and do most things in a terminal. I am a pescatarian but will eat meat if sufficiently drunk and (apparently) starving. This is my umpteenth web site and it will dutifully disappear in time. It is currently created using [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/) making it: blazing fast, not Wordpress, static, light (no JS, therefore no BS), driven by Go and [rsyncable](https://man.openbsd.org/openrsync). diff --git a/content/about/programming.md b/content/about/programming.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c9f55f --- /dev/null +++ b/content/about/programming.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +title: "Programming" +date: 2022-07-27T07:41:37+01:00 +draft: true +--- + +### BASIC + +Programming started in circa 1985 with BASIC on the Sinclair Spectrum 48K. I was able to do basic looping, make things flash, beep and do more complex things by copying code from books and magazines. Earned a Computing badge at Scouts after making a database (in rudimentary BASIC) for my Dad's antique business. + +### HTML/Javascript + +Worked in the web team of a UK Government Department as a "Web Producer", converting to HTML Word documents sent to us on 1.44MB floppy drives. Javascript back then was for making things pop-up and flash. + +Had various hobby blogs and web sites, hosted for free using space provided by my ISP (Pipex?), including one that stuck, [MadHaddy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020216192240/http://www.madhaddy.com/), about my home town in Scotland. Over a couple of years it got quite a following. One of the pubs in the town complained about the site calling it out for serving under-age drinkers. Conversations relating to drugs appears on the forums. After two years I took it down to minimise the hassle. I wish the images were still available on the archive because MadHaddy was largely an exercise "satirical" photography for me - I enjoyed confusing the populace by Photoshopping photos of the town. Also, the purile writing... Great fun. + +I still prefer flat-file web sites now of course. + +### Ruby + +Round about 2004, I got sucked into the Ruby/Rails wave of popularity. It was cool, but never really stuck, other than as a gateway to more sustainable drugs... + +### Python + +... such as Python, which did stick. diff --git a/content/stream/2022_07_26.md b/content/stream/2022_07_26.md index f1fa788..485c8eb 100644 --- a/content/stream/2022_07_26.md +++ b/content/stream/2022_07_26.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ draft: false tags: ['hugo', 'berwick-upon-tweed'] --- -First time I tried [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/) a few years ago I binned it after a few days of banging my head against brick wall. *It is not friendly to a non-programmer*. The documentation can be terse, often blurring the line between web stuff and Go-specific terminology that has nothing whatsover to do with a web site (`arrays` and `slices`, for example), with very little hand-holding or context-setting. I've written lots of computer programs, including programs written on Go, and I struggle with Hugo. +First time I tried [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/) a few years ago I binned it after a few days of banging my head against brick wall. *It is not friendly to a non-programmer*. The documentation can be terse, often blurring the line between web stuff and Go-specific terminology that has nothing whatsover to do with a web site (`arrays` and `slices`, for example), with very little hand-holding or context-setting. I've written lots of computer programs, including programs written in Go, and I struggle with Hugo. Tonight I've been trying to add a new page `about/programming` and been getting into knots understanding the often subtle issues related to layouts, lookup order, page types, leaf bundles, branch bundles, sections, and so on. Think I need to sleep on it. |