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Making the Hugo → S3 upload process much more efficient by tracking file hashes.

Justification Although caching can make page loads notably faster, it comes with a cost. Browsers aren’t always capable of taking note when a cached resource has changed. I’ve noticed recently that Safari utterly refuses to reload .css files even after emptying the browser cache and clearing the web history. Background With a lot of help from the a pair of articles written by Ukiah Smith, I’ve developed a workflow for dealing with this problem during the deployment process.

Hugo is the platform I use to publish this weblog. Occasionally I have the need to include a collection of images in a post. Mostly this comes up on other sites that I publish. Fancybox can do this; but it wasn’t immediately clear how to direct Fancybox to create a gallery of images in a page based on images in a directory. Previously, I’ve solved this in different ways, but I was anxious to find a simple shortcode-based method.

A Hugo shortcode used to style inline text in a post. I use it here to style Russian text in my posts.

TIL how to use anchors in Markdown documents. I needed to use this in a long blog post in my Octopress blog and was stymied. As usual, I found the answer on Stack Overflow. Beam me up, Scotty <a id="enterprise"></a> It’s a great way to move around in longer content. 2014-03-03: I no longer publish using Octopress; but this should work in most cases where Markdown is used. Bitbucket is a notable exception.