Adding comments to my Blog

I’ve been looking around the interwebs of how to add commenting functionality to my Hugo blog for my one reader. Yes you buddy I love you ❤️ My requirements were simple, the solution needed to be free. I’m not going to start paying for something that I can engineer my way out of! V1 My initial forays found me using, https://utteranc.es/. Utterances leverages Githubs issues page of a repo as the storage location for commenting. A new issue is created for each of your posts and readers can login using their Github profiles and leave comments. I set this up and gave it a go but it never felt quite right. The prompting for login felt like a scam and the fact that is was marked as an ‘issue’ being stored off on Github just didn’t feel quite right. I don’t want to go to Github issues to respond to a commentor. ...

July 24, 2025 · 3 min ·  Blog

Coding Convenience: Immersive labs achievements scraper

Introduction You ever look at your achievements page on X Y or Z website and think “I would love to show this whole page and not just piece meal my LinkedIn account resulting in just unprofessional noise on my public profile”… No? Maybe it’s just me… Anyway Ima build my own achievements page, with blackjack and hookers, using a web scrapping bot that extracts all the essential details and outputs this webpage for my site. Here is how I did it. ...