More Zen garden stuff and why August is the best month yet
August and September are the most productive months of my year. There’s a certain energy that I’ve noticed on the ramp down out of winter. The days are getting longer, each day a little warmer. Consequently my mood get’s brighter and brighter.
I started to notice this trend when it first got a github account and experienced the pressure of that daily activity tracker. Lots of activity in August most years.
![My 2020 git history.](/posts/thissite-07/history.png)
I really like knowing this rhythm about myself.
The first manifestation of my late winter, early spring energy is tweaking my site again.
On HN today. Why your website should be under 14kB in size
Looking at my current website, it’s pretty fast, but I have not minified any css or javascript. However I want to. And thankfully i don’t have to mess around with anything like webpack. I’m staying all Hugo, which makes me very happy.
Hugo Asset pipelines are pretty cool. They have a ton of features and flexibility to do all sorts of stuff. And they represent a pretty big warning to me. I can’t let up, I’ve gotta keep tweaking this site. Hugo is cranking features out at a great rate of knots at the moment. I’m trying my best to not run away hide from the complexity.
<meta charset="UTF-8">
close the very top of the HTML template allegedly speeds up parsing.
Two good tutorials / articles:
It would seem I’m not the first person to write blog post about writing blog posts with hugo. Meta!