Read: Crafting A Blog

I really liked this sentence:

For me blogging has always been about thinking out loud, because only when I try to formulate my ideas, I actually know what I’m thinking.

Read: The Wolfram Function Repository

We’re on an exciting path these days with the Wolfram Language. Just three weeks ago we launched the Free Wolfram Engine for Developers to help people integrate the Wolfram Language into large-scale software projects. Now, today, we’re launching the Wolfram Function Repository to provide an organized platform for functions that are built to extend the Wolfram Language—and we’re opening up the Function Repository for anyone to contribute.

I remember when it was “just Mathematica….”

Enabling reverse order display of posts in Hugo for Book theme

In an earlier post, I mentioned an issue with rendering a website built with Hugo. In the build command, I had to specify the theme. Jack Baty pointed out the theme could also be added to a configuration file (config.toml) so as not to have to enter it each time at the command line.

My next problem was that I wanted the blog post part of the Book theme to display the posts in reverse chronological order. However, it was displaying my post in the middle of the example posts, and I could not figure out what was driving the order. Jack Baty suggested looking at the template file in /layouts/posts/list.html. I looked at that file in the Book theme directory, and started looking at the lists page on the Hugo documentation site. After some reading, I found an example that showed how to display content in reverse order based on the date specified within the file. I changed the third line in the file from:

{{ range sort .Paginator.Pages }}

to

{{ range .Pages.ByDate.Reverse }}

I also edited the Date field in the posts to all have the same format:

date: “2019-06-03”

Once I did that, I got the results i was looking for – hurray! It would have been nice if the theme had done this “out of the box”, but at least I figured it out.