How to Embed Images as Base64 Strings in Hugo
You can configure your Hugo website to automatically embed an image into a web page as a Base64 string; this post shows you how.
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Playing With Admonitions
I’ve added the possibility of generating Asciidoctor-style admonitions to this website, not only in the final HTML generated for this website, but also in the PDF and EPUB outputs, and you might have seen them in action in previous posts.
How to Solve Webcam Shenanigans With systemd
Last year I talked about my faithful Logitech C930e webcam , and at the end of the article I mentioned that I have to manually disable the autofocus, and that sadly that setting is gone at every reboot, and even every time I unplug the webcam; my question then was, can I automate this somehow?
Birome
In Argentina we like to tell this urban legend that is somehow kind-of-true, that the ballpoint pen was invented there, thanks to the idea of a Hungarian-born man called László Bíró who moved to Argentina at some point during World War II.
Ubuntu 5.10 on QEMU
Following the celebration of my 20 years with Linux , I wanted to recreate the moment I installed Ubuntu “Breezy Badger” 5.10 for the first time, and with QEMU it was quite easy to do on my modern Fedora 44 environment of 2026.
Tango
Ah, so you think I’m going to talk about the dance called Tango ; but no, this time I’m going to talk about an album called “Tango” , by those two towering figures of Argentine rock , namely Charly García and Pedro Aznar .
NeXTClock
So here is a new project on GitLab called NeXTClock : a small browser-based recreation of a NeXTSTEP-style clock applet from the 1990s. This modern version renders a 64-unit clock face into a square <canvas> using JavaScript and requestAnimationFrame() , with optional scaling from 64 to 500 pixels, because, well, Java Applets aren’t really a thing anymore .
Goodbye, Cursor
Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve been quite a happy user of Cursor for the past year, but the recent news of its mother company being purchased by SpaceX has made me reconsider my decision, and cancel my current subscription altogether.
Conway in Haskell
At this point it’s becoming increasingly clear that I can ask Cursor to read any of the implementations of my Conway project and translate that into any other programming language that I want; this is what I’ve done last year with NASM , Scala , and Bash , and this year with Haskell.
Neovim
Call me late to the party if you want, but I recently adopted Neovim as my new full-time text editor for work , and I have to say I’m very pleased of having done so.