Fun fact: fetching favicons from various domains is a dark art. Might seem trivial at first, but it’s very complicated. A simple request for a favicon.ico will net strange returns — like serving a text file as a favicon.ico.

Better to leverage a browser which excels at interpreting favicons or contact a CDN of a major search engine. Make sure to cache the results.

• https://icons.duckduckgo.com/ip1/en.wikipedia.org.ico
• https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=en.wikipedia.org

This static micro blog now “multiplexes” RSS feeds natively. The penalty (blood sacrifice) for making this happen is having to run hugo twice — once for it to write markdown and second to reflect it back for hugo to see what it wrote.

If I can win the error handling game, I’ll finally be able to add all my feeds and see how far hugo can be pushed.

Chapter 2.

Not sure how people find the time and motivation to argue in long comment threads on the Internet. Seems like a waste of energy, or maybe I’m just getting older. Here’s a picture of my guava tree sprouts.