Hugo

Recently we had the Digital Independence Day what better Reason could one have to rethink how I use published photos. I actually wanted to integrate them better into my blog already since long. But Digital Independence Day was a good kick in the ass to finally quit Instagram for real. I’m not here to start a big moral talk… let’s focus on the Tech Aspects of what I did. As you may noted we now have the new Menu entry /photos which offers a small Gallery. Instead of integrating another workflow which is doomed to fail because of my lazyness, I need something easy usable from my Android phone. So I had my pixelfed account laying there, mostly collecting dust. Why not start using it again and integrate it into the blog. This post is about how I wired this up. ...

To be honest, the switch from a classic CMS to Hugo had a steep learning curve at first, but Hugo is incredible. Even though we have static pages, you can do a lot of “dynamic” stuff. The Problem From the start when I began using Hugo, I had an issue with the open graph images, per default you can specify one image as default in hugo and use post header mages as og:image. Well - I try to keep my blog posts free of images which are not beneficiary to the content. Screenshots are fine but general pseudo matching placeholder images just that you have something for the header 🤷‍♂️. So the problem that came up was all posts ended up with the same image when you linked to the article. ...