Witam 👋 This is my personal corner of the internet — a collection of technical notes, experiments, projects, and things I don’t want to rediscover twice.
It started as a pile of private notes. Over time, I moved them to Markdown so they could be searchable, version-controlled, and, when useful, published here.
The site is built with Hugo, the HB Framework, and deployed with GitHub Pages.
Launch and host an RSS reader to follow the blogs you care about
How to Customize in an Hugo Blogs the RSS feed and why it matters!
Hugo Shortcodes are reusable snippets to insert dynamic or complex content.
Run rootless Podman containers as persistent systemd services, without introducing Kubernetes.
How to create a custom sidebar widget in a Hugo static website.
Sometimes in life, you need to upgrade. This article walks through the new version of my blog and the discoveries that came with it.
Just a short list of personnal projects, I am currently working on.
Installation Install Go:
1GO_VERSION="1.21.0" 2 3wget https://go.dev/dl/go${GO_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz 4sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go 5sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go${GO_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz 6 7export PATH="/usr/local/go/bin:$PATH" 8 9go version To keep Go available after reboot:
1echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/go/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc 2source ~/.bashrc Create a project 1mkdir myapp 2cd myapp 3 4go mod init myapp A go.mod file is created:
1myapp/ 2└── go.mod It describes the Go module and its dependencies.
Hello World Create main.go:
1package main 2 3import "fmt" 4 5func main() { 6 fmt.Println("Hello World") 7} 1go run . 2go build This creates a binary: ./myapp
What is GoDog GoDog is the Cucumber implementation for Go: Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD).
You write scenarios in Gherkin (.feature files), then implement the steps in Go. go test runs the scenarios as normal tests.
Install 1go get github.com/cucumber/godog/cmd/godog@latest In practice it is a test dependency added to your go.mod.
Example 1. Feature file features/calculator.feature:
1Feature: Calculator 2 3 Scenario: add two numbers 4 Given I have a calculator 5 When I add 3 and 5 6 Then the result should be 8 2. Step definitions main_test.go:
What is Hugo Hugo is a fast static site generator, written in Go.
It turns Markdown + templates + config into a static website.
Install Use the extended build if you process SCSS (this theme does):
1# binary 2curl -L https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.154.3/hugo_extended_0.154.3_linux-amd64.tar.gz | tar -xz 3sudo mv hugo /usr/local/bin/hugo 4 5# or snap 6sudo snap install hugo You also need Dart Sass and Node/npm for SCSS + PostCSS.
New site 1hugo new site myblog 2cd myblog Content 1hugo new posts/first-post.md # draft: true by default Serve / Build 1hugo server -D # dev server, include drafts 2hugo # build into public/ 3hugo --gc # build + garbage-collect cache 4hugo --minify -e production # production build Layout 1content/ source markdown 2layouts/ templates (override the theme) 3static/ files copied as-is (images, favicons) 4data/ site data (.yaml/.json/.toml) 5config/ configuration (hugo.yaml, params, menus) 6public/ generated site (gitignored) Front matter 1--- 2title: "First Post" 3date: 2026-01-01T00:00:00+02:00 4draft: true 5--- 6 7Content. Templates & partials layouts/_default/single.html, list.html, baseof.html Override anything from the theme by mirroring the path in layouts/. Partials: {{ partial "name" . }} Useful functions 1{{ .Title }} {{ .Content }} {{ .Params.custom }} 2{{ range ... }} {{ if ... }} {{ with ... }} 3{{ resources.Get "x" | minify | fingerprint }} Modules 1hugo mod get -u ./... # update modules 2hugo mod tidy 3hugo mod graph # list the module graph Key notes _index.md = section page; index.md = leaf bundle page. draft: true pages only appear with hugo server -D. The ./-relative image paths resolve against static/, not the content bundle.