Seagull

Adding descriptions to my blog

I have generally been very happy about moving my blog to Hugo, except that I have struggled with getting it properly indexed with Google, Bing, etc. One of the benefits of using standard WordPress is that it comes with a lot of automatic functions for such things. In theory, that should also happen with Hugo. However, for some reason, my blog did not work. After various trials and errors, I think I am getting on the right track....

July 13, 2024 · 2 min · 399 words · ARJ

Cleaning up image folders on my blog

I am still in the process of transitioning my blog from WordPress to Hugo. The content has been moved, but I see that WordPress has created quite a mess of files. Here’s a simple way to identify and remove unused images using a few command-line tools. 1. Find All Used Images in Your Content First, extract all image references from your Markdown files. This command searches for Markdown image links and outputs a sorted, unique list:...

December 14, 2022 · 2 min · 231 words · ARJ

Em-dash is not a hyphen

I have been doing quite a lot of manuscript editing recently and realize that many people—including academics—don’t understand the differences between the symbols hyphen, en-dash, and em-dash. So here is a quick explanation: hyphen (-): is used to join words (“music-related motion”). You type this character with the Minus key on the keyboard, so it is the easiest one to use. en-dash (–): is used to explain relationships between two concepts (“action–sound couplings”) or in number series (0–100)....

May 13, 2022 · 2 min · 329 words · ARJ