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This article by @… describes me this weekend, hacking away with Copilot on two Hugo websites (one new, one 10 years old) and being incredibly productive while at it (and I suck at golang templates)
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Messing around with #bssg the Bash Static Site Generator some more, I found out that you can have site-specitic header and footer templates :)
https://static.inpc.de/2025/12/28/site

OMG I have made so many LaTeX Beamer presentations and even made a proper template¹ for the @…, how come I only now learn about \pause, \item<N-> and \only<N> to slowly build up your slides step by step??? 🤯
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UMPHY / Templates / 📽 Uni Tübingen Beamer Theme · GitLab
LaTeX Beamer theme for presentations, slides and posters loosely according to the Corporate Design Guidelines of the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Added Gitlab theme to my Calendar Overview (Gihub Style) Hugo template.
The template is messy but it works!
https://codeberg.org/alecsargent/hugo-templates/src/branch/master/activity-overview

Laptop backup day. I have a reminder for the last Sunday of each month. It doesn't take much time and being a Sunday I am normally not using my laptop.
Simple batch script using XCOPY. Low tech and it works. Upside is that any other machine & O/S can read the contents of the drive. I cycle between two drives (Eventually I will buy a third). Cheap insurance in case of a machine failure.
Why? Well I have the condo newsletters I write with the templates, photos and ba…

Is anyone using Packer and VMware and Rocky Linux? I'm having an issue with Rocky 10 and the packer boot. Using the example boot command here https://docs.rockylinux.org/10/guides/automation/templates-automation-packer-vsphere/ I end up with a …

Google Photos launches new video editing tools, including specialized templates with preset music and text overlays, as well as a redesigned video editor (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/google-photos-launches-new-video-editing…

Google Photos launches new video editing tools | TechCrunch
Google Photos' new update helps make editing video reels in the app quicker, such as new templates that already add music and text to clips.

For this #blackfriday why not buy and build a #nocode website of your own. Break free of big tech and try #carrd.

Choose a Starting Point - Carrd
Templates

Python Folks, in my old Perl days I used HTML::Template, is there something comparable (or better) for simple HTML generation with templates in the Python world?
#python #html #perl

This is quite a vulnerability. New Remcos Campaign Distributed Through Fake Shipping Document.
https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/new-remcos-campaign-distributed-through-fake-shipping-document

One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

Disappointing how many people think "soldered down" means "can't be upgraded" when it actually means "buy a hotplate, a hot air station, a few templates, some BGA balls, a couple pairs of nice tweezers, an LCD microscope, and a gallon of flux"