Site Updates

I've been busily working away at adding a few more features to the site since creating my own new theme for it yesterday.

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China: Day 20

CakePHP: Use models in components with ClassRegistry::init()

Hanzhong | Day 4

China: Day 21

Fedora 36

OzCHI – Day 1

Hello, Zola!

As a happy Hugo user, this is not a post I had expected to be writing.

However, I've decided to begin migrating my blog from Hugo to Zola.

There are a couple of reasons for this. None are especially convincing.

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Hong Kong | Day 1

Yuelu Mountain | Changsha

Changsha | Day 2

.dot-files

LibreWolf on Fedora

China: Day 7

Nature

Yingtian Gate | Luoyang

China: Day 3

Leshan | Day 2

Xi'an | Day 3

Changsha | Day 3 - Day 13

Hong Kong | Day 2

China: Day 1

China: Day 4

Qinghui Garden | Foshan

Yellow Crane Tower | Wuhan

LLM via Termux?

China: Day 14

China: Day 22

Using `pacman` to Repair a Broken Arch Linux Installation

Spring Bluff

Hanzhong | Day 2

Snow on the Mountain

Luoyang Museum | Luoyang

Juzizhou (橘子洲头) | Changsha

Taohuayuan Scenic Spot | Changde

How to Delay Application Startup in Xfce Based on Network Connectivity

Page Bundles in Zola

One issue I ran into pretty quickly in Zola was: how do you reference images in the markdown of a post?

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China: Day 16

Guangzhou

Fixing a Corrupt Pacman Database in Arch Linux

Yueyang Tower | Yueyang

Yuyuantan Park | Beijing

China: Day 11

Hunan Martyrs Park | Changhsa

Remote Debugging in Python

Migrating to tsc.id.au

Hugo on-the-go!

Xi'an | Day 1

Xi'an | Day 4

The Ancestral Temple | Foshan

China: Day 2

White Horse Temple | Luoyang

China: Day 15

China: Day 24

Paifang Park | Zhaoqing

China: Day 19

China: Day 8

Moshan Scenic Area | Wuhan

CHINZ 2011 Submission

Leshan | Day 1

Leshan (& Meishan) | Day 3

Restoring Some Historic Posts

This blog has existed in one form or another since April 2010, when I registered my first blogging domain.

Unfortunately, after multiple domain migrations and several tech stack changes (WordPress → Hugo → Zola), a number of my older posts were lost.

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Simplifying Display Management with autorandr

North Stradbroke Island

I recently had the opportunity to visit North Stradbroke Island, located just off the coast of Brisbane.

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Changsha | Day 1

OzCHI Paper Accepted

Zola 0.23

After a small blogging hiatus, it seemed time to check up on my sites to see how they were doing.

First question: do they still build?

Turns out the answer was no.

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Boyce Gardens and Rainforest

China: Day 5

Managing Stale Buffers When Switching Git Branches in Vim

Ziyuan Bridge | Changde

China: Day 23

Mingtang Tiantang Scenic Area | Luoyang

Chengdu | Day 1

Australia Zoo

Melbourne

Basic Vim Setup on Fedora

Sui-Tang Dynasties Grand Canal Cultural Museum | Luoyang

Xi'an | Day 2

Canton Tower | Guangzhou

Chengdu | Day 4

Hong Kong | Day 3

Donghu Scenic Area | Wuhan

How to Straighten a Horizon in GIMP

After reviewing some landscape photos from a recent trip, I noticed that several had tilted horizons and needed straightening.

When I opened them in GIMP, it wasn't immediately clear how to do this.

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China: Day 17

Binjiang Cultural Park | Changsha

China: Day 9

China: Day 18

Hanzhong | Day 1

Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

China: Day 12

Hubei Museum of Art | Wuhan

China: Day 26

Recovering an Arch Linux System: Chrooting into a LUKS-Encrypted Installation

China: Day 25

How to Automatically Sign Git Commits With a GPG Key

Chengdu | Day 3

Migrated to Hugo

Shunfengshan Park | Foshan

Longmen Grottoes | Luoyang

West Lake Cultural Park | Changsha

Juzizhou Fireworks | Changsha

The Summer Palace | Beijing

How to Deploy Zola to Cloudflare Pages

My prior blog has been running on Cloudflare Pages for a couple of years now (since moving away from GitHub Pages). However, when I originally set it up, I never wrote a blog entry - and now I can't remember what I did.

Thankfully, there's plenty of documentation available:

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Dinghu Shan | Zhaoqing

China: Day 6

Liuhua Park | Guangzhou

Chengdu (& Sanxingdui) | Day 5

TIL: Copy File Contents to Clipboard with `xclip`

Chengdu | Day 2

Picnic Point Parklands

Dynamic Wallpaper

Seven Star Crags | Zhaoqing

China: Day 10

Liuye Lake | Changde

Yuexiu Park | Guangzhou

Automatically Map Wacom Devices to a Display

Lijing Gate | Luoyang

Hubei Museum | Wuhan

Beichen Binjiang Park | Changsha

Trip to China

Hanzhong | Day 3

China: Day 13

Guangzhou | Day 1

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