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Arts-Link.com

info In Active Development: Is arts-link.com a business?, a collective?, a gallery?... we're not sure, but we are trying hard to get that figured out! https://www.arts-link.com is the first domain I ever purchased. I believe it was around 2001. It has been various different websites throughout the years, including not a web-site at all. In this rendition it is an organization which is set up to support artists in their technical needs, to free them from the discratction of such things as self-promotion and websites.

Github Action to Create New Content in Hugo

The GitHub Actions interface showing a Run workflow button
This is what it looks like I use Hugo a lot for my web development work, and I think it is pretty great. The one problem with it for many non-technical people I work with is that there is no CMS feature, they want a website administration page where they can do the usual.

Hugo Helpers

Here are some useful partials I use in this theme. layouts/_default/_markup/render-image.html This replaces the default markup template for rendering an image when the markdown code ![Alt Text](/path/to/img.jpg) is used. It calls another partial you have to add to your theme or layout directory in your site called ImageConverter.

Interpreting the French Revolution

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Recipes

Recipes I have collected, created or modified over the years. I get very frustrated by the recipe websites out there today. The ones that dominate in the search results are usually SEO over-engineered pages with too-long content describing all sorts of different things you really don’t care about, with too many confusing ads mixed-in.

Tarragon Beets Salad

Finished tarragon beet salad with mushrooms, celery, grains, and seeds
With some green tomatoes on top This was an attempt to copy a salad from Bristol Farms. I ended up modifying it quite a bit from the initial ingredients.

The Ancien Régime and the Revolution

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Les Misérables

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