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Adding a Subscription System to my Blog

I've finally gotten around to getting some basic configurations with my Listmonk mailing list system going. I got started with configurations for the Idaho 4-H Roundup podcast (did I mention I've started a podcast?), but now I'm also getting one started for my blog site. Here's how I added the HTML to get it working here.

Adding Search to my Pelican Blog Site

I'm quickly approaching the mark of 50 blog posts, which is wonderful! But it also means that finding that "thing" I wrote some time ago is becoming an increasing challenge. So... I need to add search to my blog site. But how? It's a static site, after all, there's not really a "backend" to do the search functionality for me... Luckily, there's some wonderful folks who've written tooling to add just this functionality. Here's how I added it to my blog site!

Finding Broken Blog Links

Well, I just recently converted to a new Nextcloud instance at home. Gosh, I sure hope I wasn't using any of those links externally on any important websites like a blog, or anything... Oh. I was? Awkward...

Adding PlantUML to Pelican Without Installing Java?

We know that I don't like to do anything that computers can do for me. We also know that I like Python, and am not a huge fan of Java. So how am I going to get PlantUML integrated into my blog without actually needing to install the Java packages? Let me show you...