New #blog on #BurgeonLab ✍️

➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/blog/free-private-offline-spell-check-proofreader-languagetool/

I don't know why I haven't writen about my #LanguageTool setup before; it's one of my favourite open source softwares. If you want to get a free and private & offline #spelling #grammar checker and proof reading app, this is your guide (for macOS, should be similar on Linux).

If you have any feedback/questions, let me know!

#blogging #blogs #guides #newpost #blogpost #smolweb #techblog #techguides #foss #openSource #privacy #selfhosting

New Blog Post on #BurgeonLab

Learnt a new CSS thing about navigation menu links while working on my Hugo theme redesign.

https://burgeonlab.com/blog/how-to-set-active-class-element-for-hugo-menus/

This is post 18 of #100DayToOffload
Progress: https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/

#blogpost #techblogger #hugo #webdev #CSS #indieweb #blog #HowTo #frontend

#BurgeonLab #WeekNotes 019 is out!
2026: Week 11/52 (Mar 9 – 15)

https://burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2026/w11/

This is post 17 of #100DaysToOffload
Progress: https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/

#blogging #blogs #smallweb #indieweb #weeknote #personalBlog #weeklynote #cryptpad #nintendoswitch #vps #nodejs #f1fantasy #lewisHamilton

Unfortunately, Botpoison is failing to block spam on my two static forms. I might have to go to Cloudflare Turnstile if honeypots fail. Do any of you have recommendations for protecting forms on your blog?

https://botpoison.com/documentation/getting-started/html

#BurgeonLab #forms #spamprotection #Captcha #Cloudflare #HCaptcha

Update on my big Hugo theme redesign! I asked the folks at #Indieweb #HomeBrewWebsiteClub today for some feedback on my new footer and got some really useful advice!

Here's the redesigned footer so far (before the advice). If anyone has more feedback, I'm all ears! 😊 I'll add the v2 screenshot when it's ready.

Thanks to @ross, Angelo https://ragt.ag/, @vanderwal, Mike https://michaelkupietz.com for giving me feedback. 🙏

#webdev #hugo #webdesign #css #burgeonLab

#BurgeonLab #WeekNotes 018 is out!
2026: Week 10/52 (Mar 2 – 8)

https://burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2026/w10/

This is post 15 of #100DaysToOffload
Progress: https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/

PS: I became a #Wikipedian last week because of https://fosstodon.org/@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io Molly's video!

#blogging #blogs #smallweb #indieweb #weeknote #personalBlog #weeklynote #mechkeys #keyboards #trackball #f1Fantasy #diy #zsa #wikipedia

#BurgeonLab #WeekNotes 017 is out!
2026: Week 09/52 (Feb 23 – Mar 1)

https://burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2026/w09/

This is post 14 of #100DaysToOffload
Progress: https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/

#blogging #blogs #smallweb #indieweb #weeknote #personalBlog #weeklynote #nordicwalking #walkathon #plumbing #diy

I forked my Hugo theme and started applying all my overrides into the fork! Maybe one day, I'll share the theme publically... 🤔 Finally, I can work on cleaning up the worse mess: CSS. I can't wait to have a much cleaner style sheet!

By the way, the branches are looking cool! Merged my first branch already. ;)

PS: the theme I forked is called Anubis2 by Junyi-99.
https://themes.gohugo.io/themes/hugo-theme-anubis2/

#Hugo #HugoTheme #gitbranch #git #vscodium #Gitgraph #CSS #webdev #BurgeonLab

#BurgeonLab #WeekNotes 016 is out!
2026: Week 08/52 (Feb 16 – 22)

https://burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2026/w08/

This is post 13 of #100DaysToOffload
Progress: https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/

#blogging #blogs #smallweb #indieweb #weeknote #personalBlog #weeklynote #webdev #wcag #a11y #keepandroidopen #fdroid #android

I feel like I progressed up a level today in my Git skills by creating a new branch to manage my #Hugo theme improvement!

I downloaded Git Graph 2 (fork of the popular mhutchie VSC plugin) by hansu: https://github.com/hansu/vscode-git-graph

It's so cool seeing the branch graph view 🤩 and I'm learning to write better commit messages/formatting.

Useful resources:

https://gist.github.com/joshbuchea/6f47e86d2510bce28f8e7f42ae84c716

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/GitCommitMessages#Things_to_avoid_when_creating_commits

#webdev #vscodium #vscode #ide #git #BurgeonLab #personalblog