Super simple yearly post archives for Hugo

I was looking for the most simple way to get automatic yearly archives of all blog posts for the Hugo setup responsible for cpbotha.net (this blog).

Fortunately I ran into Rohan Verma’s template-based solution which I could then simplify into the even more straight-forward shortcode-based solution presented in this post.

For an example of the output, see the post archives here.

To make this happen on your Hugo setup is a two step process.

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The 2020 to 2021 transition post

Welcome to the year 2021 friends.

Every year around about this time, I try to write a transition post like this one.

You can get a list of all of the transition posts by going to the “transition” tag page.

If you don’t have time to read them all (haha), you could just scan through last year’s 2019 to 2020 edition.

This transition tradition started at the end of 2009, which coincidentally is also the year that the Weekly Head Voices was born.

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Weekly Head Voices #212: Use it, or lose it

Well hello there folks, and welcome to the 212th edition of the Weekly Head Voices!

This one covers the two weeks from Monday December 7 to Sunday December 20, 2020. My end-of-year vacation started at some point during the period under investigation, so there’s not all that much to report here, except perhaps for a small philosophy message brought to you by the world of science.

Figure 1: View of the bridge over the mouth of the Steenbras River, taken from our anniversary hike up Steenbras Gorge to the Crystal Pools and back.

Figure 1: View of the bridge over the mouth of the Steenbras River, taken from our anniversary hike up Steenbras Gorge to the Crystal Pools and back.

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Notes on the book "Creativity, Inc." by Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace

You are reading the consolidated and refined version of the notes and excerpts I made while reading the book Creativity Inc..

This is by no means a complete summary of the book, but rather a collection of lessons that I found note-worthy.

Overview

The book deals with the building and maintenance of sustainable creative organizations, painted on the rich background of Ed Catmull’s role in the construction and running of Pixar and later also of Disney Animation.

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Weekly Head Voices #211: Table Mountain Run(ish)

Welcome back to the Weekly Head Voices friends!

These ones, the two hundred and eleventh (haha, remember at school you always wondered if anyone would ever really need to be able to write out numbers… IT WAS ALL FOR ME) edition, will hopefully be talking more or less coherently about events that took place during the two weeks from Monday November 23 to Sunday December 6 of the year 2020.

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Weekly Head Voices #210: MiniBurn 2020

Welcome back to the WHV blogging clubhouse, gang!

Somewhat inspired by Descartes, I can say with a fair amount of confidence that you are now reading these words, and for that I am grateful.

This post covers the weeks from Monday, November 9 to Sunday, November 22 of the year 2020.

papercite_static: put some bibtex into your Hugo

After languishing for almost a year on my todo list, I finally got around to cleaning up and making available my Python script for embedding your BiBTeX bibliographies in your markdown files.

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