Tag: Hugo

Some shortcode magic for embedding toots in Hugo posts.

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After a bit of work with Hugo’s templating functions, namely the exceedingly useful getJSON I can now embed Mastodon posts directly in my page!

I've created a shortcode for (a static site generator) that lets me embed Toots on my blog posts!

realmenweardress.es/2022/11/20

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If you’ve looked at this before you might be thinking “Gee, this is easy, you just use the Oembed API”. Well, I didn’t want to use that so this does it properly, with building actual content out of JSON responses. It does mean I’m in way more control of the behaviour.

Welcome to the new Real Men Wear Dress.es

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This was the year I took some time out to rebuild this site. As is typical for the personal projects we take on it featured large amounts of scope creep, a non-existant deadline and too many new technologies to learn.