River Writes - A MediaWiki Blog

Serving Hugo from a non-root location with Nginx

📅 Jan 11, 2022 · ☕ 4 min read · ✍️ River

#hugo · #nginx

When I set up my fantasy blog, I had to configure a Hugo blog at a non-root location on my domain. This was easier than my Flask site, but it still took me some time to figure out what to do.

Organize your Hugo content folder by year, without affecting any URLs

📅 Jan 4, 2022 · ☕ 4 min read · ✍️ River

#hugo

How to organize your Hugo content folder into subfolders by year without affecting any URLs

Book review - Foundations of Library and Information Science

📅 Dec 29, 2021 · ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River

#books

A review of "Foundations of Library and Information Science"

How to find a namespace number

📅 Dec 14, 2021 · ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ River

#mediawiki

There's a number (haha) of ways to find namespace numbers; this is the one I find to be the easiest (plus some bonus options)

Make lots of sandbox pages

📅 Dec 7, 2021 · ☕ 5 min read · ✍️ River

#best_practices · #mediawiki

Instead of putting all of your code experiments on a single page, make lots of little sandbox pages!

How to set up Sphinx for Read the Docs

📅 Dec 2, 2021 · ☕ 12 min read · ✍️ River

#python · #sphinx

A tutorial for configuring Sphinx for Read the Docs for your Python projects

mwcleric, my Python MediaWiki client library

📅 Nov 24, 2021 · ☕ 2 min read · ✍️ River

#news · #python

An overview of mwcleric

Book review - The Elements of User Experience

📅 Oct 26, 2021 · ☕ 4 min read · ✍️ River

#books

A review of "The Elements of User Experience"

Mouse Gestures (the useful ones)

📅 Oct 12, 2021 · ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River

#firefox

A spiritual follow-up to my "MediaWiki hotkeys (the useful ones)" post, this time I go over my Firefox Gesturefy bindings and what I use them for when working with MediaWiki.