I really like the look of the Hugo Zzo theme, but I changed the tag cloud that is displayed in the sidebar.

The unmodified sidebar displays the tags, with the number of posts tagged with the tag in question.

What I wanted was a variable font for the tags, with a bigger font for tags that had more posts.

Rather than …

Forcing curl/wget to decompress gzip'd output

I was doing some troubleshooting (of this site no less), and was using the ever-useful curl command to see what the webserver was sending.

However, at first, I got this output:

curl -so index.html https://www.nodinrogers.com # the '-s' is for silent, and the …

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My start-to-finish customization of the Zzo Hugo theme.

Reference for myself, in case I need to reinvent the wheel.

This is still a work in progress...

Install Hugo

I'm using the 0.88.1 extended version, which at this time, is also the latest version.

wget …

I finally ironed out all of the issues with my KVM server, and to eliminate any of the left over junk, for lack of a better phrase, I nuked the server and reinstalled Ubuntu 20.04. For the record, junk consisted of various packages, their configurations, and system modifications, that I'd tried out in deciding how to …

After getting Hugo configured and generated some content (posts), I wanted a(n easier) way to get them to the AWS S3 bucket for my website.

The manual way was to log into https://console.aws.amazon.com, go to the S3 page, select the bucket for the website, and upload the content.

Thankfully, Hugo has built-in …