Does this github action still work?

I haven’t posted to this site or performed any kind of maintenance in over 2 years… but it’s still alive! I wonder if this post will appear once I do a git commit?

Tabuu – a word game webapp

Small projects are great. With a tight enough scope, you can start and finish something before your attention span moves on to the-next-thing.

I made a little web app called Tabuu. It’s here: tabuu.michaelcassidy.net.

Hugo shortcode for embedding Unity WebGL players – updated with code

Want to embed Unity WebGL players easily inside your Hugo website? Here’s a shortcode for you.

Multiple Unity WebGL players on a single page using Hugo shortcodes

Using Hugo shortcodes and modifying the default Unity WebGL player to allow for easy embedding within a Hugo page, and adding support for multiple playes on the same page without using iframes.

Load Unity WebGL player only after user clicks a button

Unity allows you to publish WebGL builds of your games, which is great for easily sharing prototypes or publishing complete projects. But these builds can get large (hundreds of megabytes) and you may wish to warn your users before the download initiates. It’s pretty easy to do this by modifying the html page output by the Unity WebGL build.

This post assumes only beginner-level knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Hugo shortcode for embedding Unity WebGL players

I want to embed my Unity WebGL builds inside this site, rather than linking to the content in a new tab (which is over in Azure blob storage). Now I can do that!

This is really just a test. If it works, I’ll tidy it up and share the code later.

Hide pages from Hugo generated sitemap

Want ‘hidden’ pages? Override Hugo’s default sitemap.xml behaviour by making your own sitemap.xml file inside layouts/_default/.

Open external links in new tab with Goldmark markdown renderer in Hugo

Goldmark doesn’t have this feature by default, but it’s easy to add.

Use a custom 404 page for Azure Static Web Apps

404’s on Azure Static Web Apps give an Azure branded page. Here’s how to change that behaviour and tell Azure to serve your custom 404.html.

Make a free, performant and scalable personal website using Hugo, a static site generator

I want a personal blog site. I want it to be performant, scalable, easy to maintain, and free… I’m not asking too much right? Well it turns out static site generators make this completely possible! This post is about how I configured this very website. Follow along if you’d like to make your own site like this one.