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Another month, another dividend income update. I haven’t been as productive as I thought I would be this summer. There are a few home projects that I want to complete before the end of the summer, but due to the rain and busy weekend schedule, that has been put on hold. The other thing that has been placed on …
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It has been a while since I read for pleasure. I used to be an avid reader in my early adulthood. But that changed as my career and hobbies took over. Recently, I made it a personal goal to start reading personal finance books. Late last year, I signed up for a free 3-month trial of Kindle Unlimited. The idea is that …
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One of the most powerful features of Hugo is shortcodes. Shortcodes allow users to programmatically generate HTML. One of the most tedious parts about posting my monthly dividend income update is copying/pasting the company names. In the past, I ordered the list alphabetically by stock ticker, but I also put the ETFs …
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I’ve been running this Hugo site for almost 2 weeks now and I’m still impressed with what I can do so far with a static site for little monetary cost. While the monetary cost is low, there is still a cost involved in solving problems when it doesn’t do what you want it to do. As I mentioned in my …
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When building a static website, often web developers place images in a folder named static. These images are meant to be accessible on any page on the website. But what if you have post-specific images? You can place these in post-specific folders. That’s a feature that Hugo supports. You can create a page …
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Back when I started creating my first web presence on sites like Geocities, where sites were constantly “Under Construction”, or when I created my own site on Dreamhost, the process of creating something out of nothing was a labor of love. These days, it’s easier with the ubiquity of cascading style …
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When I was hosting a WordPress blog on Bluehost, I used the Visualizer plugin to display tables and graphs for my dividend income update. Both WordPress and the Visualizer plugin are updated frequently and as a result, both are automatically updated by Bluehost. That’s one of the benefits of hosting with these …
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Summer has officially started and I finally have time to write blog posts again, yay! I’ve been keeping myself busy these past few months continuing the activities that I participated in pre-pandemic, being a plant dad by clearing out weeds, planting new seedlings, and for the most part ignoring the markets. The …
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As I mentioned in a previous post, this website is built with Hugo and deploys to Cloudflare Pages. In this post, I will show you how to create a Hugo site and automatically deploy it to Cloudflare Pages from start to finish. Mac Setup The first step is to download all of the necessary software onto your laptop. In …
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Blogging used to be popular over a decade ago. But these days, people prefer to consume media in other ways, namely videos on YouTube, TikTok, etc. Back in the day, I used to own a hand-crafted site on Dreamhost, but that didn’t last too long. Wordpress has come a long way and many companies now offer hosted …
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