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Using Hugo, a Static Website Builder

 Hugo is both a delightful movie from 2011 and a flexible, fast, open source static website builder. I'm no stranger to static websites, so I'm giving it a try!    -> You will need git installed.    Steps. 1. Install Powershell 2. Use Hugo 3. Using a Domain 4.Publishing a Hugo Site (GitHub Pages)     Installing Powershell Powershell is not the same as Windows Powershell. I'm using WinGet , the Windows Package Manager. It's a tool that does everything you do in a GUI for Windows Clients, but in the command line.  WinGet also installs Hugo.   Using Hugo All of this work is in Powershell.  `hugo new site quickstart`  The command makes a new folder called quickstart while populating it with the Hugo things we need.  `git init`  Initializes git.   ` git submodule add https://github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke.git themes/ananke ` It clones the repo into the quickstart directory.  `echo "theme = 'anank...

Building a Roblox Game

   I play video games, like Hiberworld , but I have never played Roblox. Besides the fact that it's exploiting kids to make games for them and giving them a minuscule amount of money and had an outage that they wrote a very good post-mortem for. Apparently, it was in beta in 2004, when I was 12, and fully released 2 years later. Theoretically, there are people my age who probably have been playing this game for 15 years . That's amazing! I play Splatoon, Fortnite, quite a few remakes of older games (Let's be honest, Sonic Mania was a remake). What new games should I be playing? I don't like taking risks on things that are 60$ (or broken upon release, hello Pokemon Gen 9. Which is such a pity, because Gen 9 looks like the best Pokemon story since Gen 2! But it's broken! But I digress.). I played Zelda for the first time at 30 with Breath of the Wild. I used this guide: Really straightforward and personable fellow. Roblox uses Lua in conjunction with a drag and drop ...