Daniel Engbert

Daniel Engbert’s personal website

Based on dguo’s site

Hello! My website is available at https://engbert.me

How to run locally

hugo server

Tech Stack

• Algolia for search functionality
  • tutorial
• Disqus for comments in posts
• Google Analytics for analytics
• Google Fonts for the Open Sans font
• Hugo for generating the static site
• Imgur for image hosting
  • This allows me to avoid committing images to Git
• Netlify for hosting
• Repl.it for interactive code snippets
• Travis CI for continuous integration

Content

• notes
• blog
• recipes

TODO:

• Make my blog/notes (fuzzy) searchable (including the PDFs in my notes, etc and use keywords stored for the handwritten notes).
  • Overtime this content should grow and represent the breadth of what I’ve learned.
• Less-annoying anchor links (only have them appear when hovering)
• Better copy/paste code block button? like this

Features

Many of these were easy to add because of Hugo.

• animated link underlines
• comments
• copy to clipboard buttons for code blocks
• custom text selection colors
• “edit on GitHub” links
• estimated reading times and word counts
• pagination links to the previous and next posts
• RSS feed for blog posts
• static anchor links
• static copyright year
• static syntax highlighting
• “Updated on” dates for blog posts when applicable
• unlisted posts that are only publicly available through a direct link

Checklist for Publishing an Unlisted Post

Follow this checklist to make a post publicly available, but only through a direct link. Nothing on the site should link to it. This concept is the same as an unlisted YouTube video or unlisted Medium post.

1. Remove the draft flag from the front matter
2. Add an unlisted flag with a value of true
3. Leave the date, categories, and tags fields empty
4. Commit, and push to deploy

Checklist for Publishing a Final Post

1. Upload any images to the dedicated Imgur album
2. Update the front matter
   • Remove the draft or unlisted flag
   • Set the date, categories, and tags fields
3. Back up images in Google Drive
4. Import the post into Medium
   • Convert code blocks into GitHub gists and embed them
   • Embed any Repl.it snippets
   • Set the content licensing to “Attribution, non-commercial, share alike”
5. Import the post into dev.to
   • To get around dev.to’s issue with line break handling in Markdown, use :%s/\(\S\)\n\(\S\)/\1 \2/ in Vim to join lines within paragraphs (afterwards, fix lists, code blocks, etc. as appropriate)
   • Add canonical_url to the front matter
   • Add any GIFs manually
   • Add a canonical link and an edit on GitHub link to the bottom of the post
6. Publicize the post, as appropriate, and update the post with links
   • Hacker News
   • Lobsters
   • Reddit
   • Twitter

Checklist for Updating a Post

Only do this for substantial changes, not small ones like fixing typos or links.

1. Add the lastmod variable to the post’s front matter
2. Update the post content
3. Publish it
4. If applicable, update the Medium post and/or the dev.to post
   • Make sure to check embedded content, like code examples

License

The content of this project (in the content directory) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, and the underlying source code used to format and display this content is licensed under the MIT license.

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