New Hugo Theme & Shortcodes

I’ve finally got round to updating my website theme. It’s build using Hugo (see this post) and I’m now using the simple LoveIt Theme.

Hugo Shortcodes

I’m liking some of the built-in shortcodes you get using this pipeline. There’s more examples extensive information here and here. These are a few of my recent favourites.

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Mermaid

Mermaid is an awesome tool to define simple flow charts as code. The simple syntax lets you create diagrams and easily edit them as they are stored in source control.

Here’s an example showing my Hugo website build pipeline:

TypeIt

TypeIt is a nice javascript plugin which animates text as if it is being typed into the page live.