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Populating and then Iterating Over a Hugo Map

25 Nov 2024
An example of populating a Hugo map (dict) and then iterating over it.

Customizing Hugo Tables of Contents

12 Nov 2024
The default styling for my Hugo table of contents (ToC) does not work well with the way I typically use Markdown headings. Here is how I customized what Hugo generates for a ToC…

New Look for northCoder - With My Own Codeblock Style

11 Nov 2024
I have replaced the old Hugo theme with one I created myself, including a custom code block renderer…

Sass in Hugo

06 Nov 2024
A quick example of using a Hugo pipe to support Sass…

Hugo Website with Dual Language Support

31 Oct 2024
A very simple static website, built using Hugo and supporting two languages for its content.

jOOQ Beginner's Guide - Follow-Up

04 Oct 2024
A follow-up to an earlier post, with some changes to my jOOQ data access (DAO) code.

Notes From a jOOQ Beginner

10 Sep 2024
I started learning jOOQ. Here is a repository of what I learned.

MySQL Schema and Data Dump Examples

25 Aug 2024
Some basic examples of using mysqldump to extract different types of information (schemas/objects/data) from a MySQL database. Also includes TABLE… INTO and LOAD… INTO examples. Finally, I have a very quick look at MySQL Shell.

Thymeleaf and HTMX - More Thoughts

23 Aug 2024
Some more thoughts about using HTMX with Thymeleaf, taking a closer look at web contexts.

Using DaisyUI Components with Alpine.js

14 Aug 2024
If you use Tailwind, you may also have seen Daisy. And if you’ve seen Daisy, you may not have realized that it does not include any JavaScript functions for its component library…