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Naty S
Naty's personal site, built with IndieWeb principles, is where she writes about tinkering with technology and hobbies. She likes to write how-to guides on things she's learnt and is passionate about open source, Hugo, online privacy, and self-hosting.
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Regular expression (Regex) is a skill I wish I have a better grasp on; but I’m slowly learning! For example, I often find myself searching for a particular string pattern to replace it with something else. Today, I learnt how to search for this pattern (Markdown bullet points): The start of a new line (^) Dash (-)...
I came across Tabitha’s website today at Homebrew Website Club: Pacific. Her site(s) are seriously uber-cool and unique, go check it out yourself! [For up-to-date content, visit BurgeonLab directly (XML feeds don't fetch updates in real-time). For topic-specific feeds, visit /subscribe. Thanks for reading my blog...
Maintaining My Own Brew TapNo, not beer; but for Homebrew, the package manager which I have used for over five years…? I don’t know how I lived without it before! I have decided to maintain my own tap for the first time because of the deprecations that will come into action later this year in around September 2026....
Site UpdatesLast week I added a feature using Hugo’s data/ folder to store cached Mastodon post data as .json files for my Mastodon embeds. When Hugo builds the site, it doesn’t have to connect to the internet to fetch each post’s details. 👍 I created a new /style-guide page last week which received some positive...
Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2026I’m attending an in-person event this weekend related to my one of my passions for the very first time; open source! Came across the HKOSCon on Mastodon via @sammyfung, the founder of Open Source Hong Kong. I’m not sure what to expect but I’m excited! It’s held in an area of HK...
What Is This?This page serves as a documentation of the visual elements used on BurgeonLab. As explained on the IndieWeb wiki, it’s a page that describes either the writing or visual styles used on a site. I don’t know when my “big theme redesign” will finally be live, but some of the styles are not consistent...
Why I Created ThisI have heard of bloggers1 accidentally publishing draft posts and I would feel stressed just hearing about it. In my fourth year writing with Hugo, +95k words later, I also managed to accidentally publish a draft post! 😱 Mine got pushed to the two Main (full-text and summary) and Firehose feeds. I...
IndieWeb UpdatesAn IndieWeb blogger I followed for a long time, Brennan, followed me on Mastodon! What’s even cooler was having him join the Homebrew Website Club: Pacific last week! His blog and writing are often mentioned in the IndieWeb chats and meetups. During the meeting he shared a useful IndieWeb...
My WordPress Replacement: ZensicalIn the last few days, I’ve been experimenting with a new SSG (Zensical) as a replacement for my secondary site that’s still running WordPress—the CMS I learnt to create my first website. Once the migration is over, I won’t have to manage a dynamic website any more. Hurray, static...
In Real LifeLast week I caught up with my college classmate for dinner. It was really lovely as it reminded me of all the good times in Ireland! One thing we chatted about was the recent rise of popularity (and value!) of Pokémon trading cards. I grew up with Pokémon and 2026 is their 30th anniversary. I still...
I thought my secondary blog (with WordPress backend) wouldn’t auto-update, but I think I missed the setting on Hostinger. So sadly my site is now running the new 7.0 with AI features 🤮. I immediately added the disable AI features line to config.php. I’ll be switching to a WordPress alternative later this year when...
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