About the Quest TLD domain
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The .Quest TLD domain, together with, .Beauty, .Hair, .Skin, and .Makeup are available for public to purchase. To me, it seems the news was not advertised a lot (I mainly use Twitter). While browsing for some new domains I discovered these TLD are already on sale. These domains are under the operation of Generation.XYZ LLC. They have a blog about it. The "Quest" means pursuing, searching, or an attempt to achieve something or a …
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Edit 1: The article was updated. Thanks to the replies from Martin Tournoij and Kellen Scarlett.
Edit 2: This article was written for GoatCounter 1.x. In March 2021, GoatCounter 2.0 was released and the syntax for cli is changed. You can view the release note in GitHub.
Web analytics applications
I had been using Google Analytics for a while. It's easy to setup. Just add a script and is ready to go. Then I …
Integrating Webmention with my blog
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Introduction
I had tried to use IntenseDebate and Disqus with this blog. I found the layout of IntenseDebate is outdated. Automattic did not update this project for a long time. It is a maintained state without new development. For Disqus, it had two problems. Looks like it may display Ads for the free plan. Also the long loading time for a webpage could be a problem. Below is a table that displayed the amount of data …
Using MeiliSearch with Pelican
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In my previous post, I mentioned about MeiliSearch. Let's have a short article on how to integrate it with my theme.
Edit: This post was edited for MeiliSearch version 0.13.
Part I: MeiliSearch
Meilisearch is written in Rust. Possible solutions for hosting it are VPS, serverless hosting and docker. Here is the link for official installation guide.
Steps for setting up Rust
- Get a release binary from the official web site
- Start up the …
Quickstart with Pelican Static Site Generator
Introduction to Pelican
There are lots of static site generators (SSG) available in the market. When it comes to Python based SSG, Pelican is the most popular one.
Here is my thoughts on Pelican:
- Pelican is written in Python and is easy to use.
- Pelican uses Jinja2 as the template language or macro. Which is not bad because Ansible templates is also using Jinja2. Learning Jinja2 is beneficial beneficial on using both products.
- If you are a data scientist, you could integrate …
Further improved the new theme
Making changes to the Bootstrap 4 theme
In the previous article, I mentioned the blog was migrated to use Bootstrap 4. Here are some new changes:
- Removed Font Awesome and use Feather Icons instead. But the icon for Reddit is missing in Feather Icons.
- Removed the need of the CSS from the Slate theme. Now I only need to use the original bootstrap.min.css and load my own nero.css file.
- Fixed the Scroll Spy, it is now working for articles …