Tag: learning

  • Learning by Trial And Error

    Learning by Trial And Error

    Reading Time: 4 minutesEvery day or two I see people post about how the Fediverse should be simplified to welcome new people. It’s a shame. Signing up for a fediverse server is easy. It’s the same process as for every site. The biggest difference is that you’re signing up for a privately owned, crowd sourced…

  • Hugo and Upload Time

    Hugo and Upload Time

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI like blogging with Hugo. I like writing my daily article in VIM and then exporting it to WordPress, before publishing it both with Hugo and WordPress. The build time for this build was 14 seconds but it can take up to 20 seconds. Although this i slow this isn’t the bottle…

  • ClassicPress and the Fediverse – Not Quite Ready

    ClassicPress and the Fediverse – Not Quite Ready

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I experimented with migrating my blog from WordPress to ClassicPress to see whether ClassicPress plays nicely with the fediverse. It does but there is room for improvement. If you want instructions on how to migrate from wordpress you can find the instructions here. Summarised, you download the switch to ClassicPress plugin,…

  • Conversing With Google Bard

    Conversing With Google Bard

    Reading Time: 4 minutesTwo days ago I was given access to Google Bard and since then I have been experimenting. The key feature that sets Google Bard apart from ChatGPT is that it can answer questions about what is happening at the moment, rather than before September 2021. By being current you can ask it…

  • Transitioning from WordPress to Hugo

    Transitioning from WordPress to Hugo

    Reading Time: 3 minutesTransitioning from WordPress to Hugo is tempting because I don’t need an entire CMS for what I’m doing. What I need is a centralised system that checks for tags, titles and the theme, and updates the navigation as I add new pages. You don’t need a CMS for that. The Good Old…

  • Playing with AI and Learning to Keep It Simple, Silly

    Playing with AI and Learning to Keep It Simple, Silly

    Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I was playing with AI in the evening and I asked it to help me write a function that would detect whether an array item was a photo or a video. I told the AI, this is a photo array item, and this is a video array item. I want the…

  • My AI Teacher

    My AI Teacher

    Reading Time: 4 minutesToday I want to discuss something different. I want to discuss using AI as a teacher, rather than as a tool to replace us. For a few days I have been playing with the Instagram json file that I got when I requested my archive. With this json file I thought about…

  • A Desire to Dump WordPress

    A Desire to Dump WordPress

    Reading Time: 2 minutesIn theory WordPress is a fantastic tool to write a blog, without needing to learn to code. In practice I am tired of WordPress and I have been tired of WordPress ever since they started to use blocks, and ever since I noticed that it uses React.  React and Meta I know…

  • Playing with the Hugo With An Old Site

    Playing with the Hugo With An Old Site

    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor a few days I have been playing with Hugo with Markdown and HTML pages. It says that it is “the world’s fastest framework for building websites” and so far I do notice that it has a key strength that I like.  Front Matter That strength is that with small modifications you…

  • Playing With Pelican – A Static Blog Website

    Playing With Pelican – A Static Blog Website

    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen looking at Codeberg as a European alternative to github I came across mentions of Pelican, a static blog generator. Yesterday I spent several hours setting it up and playing. Whilst playing with it I saw some opportunities.  By default Pelican is designed to have one category per blog post. For small…