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Blaugust 2026 Overview Blaugust has motivated me to post the most on any given month of the year (see the trends on the calendar heatmap or monthly spread).

This blog post is prompted by Robert Birming’s AuguStory blogging activity.1 Blaugust 2026 is still ongoing, but I’ve fallen behind my originally planned schedule due to family commitments.

Preface I haven’t had the chance to share my thoughts on the first virtual Homebrew Website Club (HWC) event I hosted two weeks ago!

What This Is About Hand write, raw Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and make a webpage during the worldwide event, held in early August each year.

Preface After reading a few posts from fellow bloggers about how much it costs them to run their site, I am intrigued as to how much I am actually paying for this passion project of mine!

I thought the beginning of this post’s title might catch your eye as it doesn’t sound like what usually appears on my blog!

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Why I Created This I have heard of bloggers1 accidentally publishing draft posts and I would feel stressed just hearing about it.

Problem I have written nearly 30 weeknotes so far and a recurring section in all weeknotes is the “Link Roundup” where I share interesting links I came across that week (aka Link Dumps).

About Feather Wiki I discovered Feather Wiki indirectly via fellow blogger, Jack Baty.

Problem: High Latency and Lag on SSH My little Raspberry Pi 4B homelab server has always been headless and accessed via SSH on my Mac.

What is LanguageTool LanguageTool (LT) is an open source proofreading service for over 30+ languages.

Background Navigation menus, like top nav bars and footer menus, typically add an active CSS class to the current page’s link, providing visual feedback and highlights the page you’re currently on.

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Introduction In the past, I mentioned how I use Hugo on different devices (Android and Linux).

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Initial Experience with SEO I learnt about orphan pages when starting my blogging journey in 2022 as a novice using WordPress.

Preface A few years back, I spotted a simple appreciation button on Bear Blog postings.1 Since then, I’ve wanted one for my Hugo site.

Previous OG Image Workflow After learning about Open Graph images and setting it up correctly on Hugo earlier this year; I’ve manually designed a “default” OG image with GIMP.

Preface For my scheduling needs I’ve been using Tuta Calendar (Tutanota) since I de‑Googled.

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How to Follow Along Thanks a lot for your interest and readership!

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Multi-Device Blogging Workflow I like and appreciate being able to access my Hugo blog from multiple devices.

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What Is /uses?

Update: Migration Success Update Migration Successful!

Fixing My First Bug @Minty95, one of my Mastodon followers, has brought to my attention a problem he’s had with ReText’s syntax highlighting of fenced code blocks.

Making My First Contributions My first thought of contributing to an open source project began when I first started using Hugo.

ReText Markdown Editor In this post I’ll run through all the ReText customization options I know.

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Issue A friend of mine created his first blog with WordPress.org and wanted to have captions for the featured image block.

Here are some notes of things I’ve learnt while using Hugo as my main CMS.

Initial Encounter I previously never shared my blog posts on social media, so I didn’t know those “link cards” that pop up when a URL is shared are called Open Graph and had to be set up correctly on the site for it to be generated.

Preface Two of my three domains (not burgeonlab.com) use Cloudflare DNS nameservers.

Widening My Horizons Ever since joining the Fosstodon.org instance on Mastodon as my main “Fediverse residence” in mid-2023, I have discovered many amazing personal sites, weblogs, and online representations from skilled and interesting tech-oriented peop…

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TL;DR BurgeonLab is a static site built with Hugo, hosted on Bunny.net1 Edge Storage with BunnyCDN, and uses a heavily modded version of the Anubis2 theme.

What Is RSS RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.

My Love For Markdown Editors As a Markdown user for over a decade, I can vividly recall downloading my first Markdown editor, Mou, by Chen Luo.1 It was an excellent, lightweight application that made note-taking enjoyable during my college years.

Preface Occasionally, I need to work on different devices without access to my main computer at home.

New Phone = Opportunity to Start Afresh?

Background I bought my first e-reader (a Kobo Aura One Limited Edition) recently and right away I chose KOReader as my main software to read and manage my ebooks.

The Problem At Hand My current Hugo theme is Anatole and I have only been using HTML and CSS to customize the site.

My Terminal Setup I customized my MacOS terminal with OMZ.

Headache After Upgrading From Catalina To Sonoma Having come from a 10+ year old MacBook Air that’s still running smoothly on macOS Catalina; I find it a bit disconcerting how I need to troubleshoot through weird bugs and errors on a modern M1 Apple Silic…

Update (2025) I recently realised my jump-to-top button is being hidden by uBlock Origin as it is being categorized as “Other Annoyances” under “Cosmetic Filtering”.

Setting up Dietpi on a Headless Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB Using Balena Etcher on macOS, I flashed a copy of the Raspberry Pi 2/3/4 DietPi image onto a Kingston 128GB Canvas Go Plus microSD card.

Introduction Having gone on a deep dive in the mid of September learning about Hugo and Git for documenting my Raspberry Pi 4B homelab journey; I found myself suddenly distracted by a great deal on a Mac Mini M1 in the local second-hand market.

Learning New Skills Having grown up with Xanga, LiveJournal, Wordpress.com and Tumblr, then graduating to self-hosted WordPress; using Hugo is a breath of fresh air in my blogging journey.