bbaovanc’s Website

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This is my personal website. I wrote it myself from scratch using my own theme and a static site generator named Hugo. I occasionally write blog posts under the blog section.

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I write mostly about technology, including:

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I also run another website: https://boba.best.


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Guide to the correct swapfile setup write icon

There is a lot of conflicting information out there on how to create a swapfile correctly. Although these guides (should) all work perfeclty fine, I spent the time to research and find out what is actually the most correct.

In summary: make sure to use the dd command to create the swapfile, and create an fstab entry that looks similar to /swapfile none swap sw 0 0. In this article, I will go more in-depth into the correct steps to create a swapfile on Linux, and explain each step.

Swapfile guide explained write icon

This page is about something. All the content before the “more” HTML comment below will become the summary, which will be used in list pages and in the meta tags on the article.

Or, if you don’t want your description to be at the top of the article, you can set your own description in the front matter and it will override this. See the Content Summaries page on the Hugo docs for more information.

Using GitHub Actions to audit my website with Google Chrome Lighthouse

Picture of the `Performance` section on the Lighthouse CI dashboard
Picture of the Performance section on the Lighthouse CI dashboard

The other day I set up automatic testing of my website using Google Chrome Lighthouse. I’m also running my own Lighthouse CI server to store test result history and show trends. Here’s an outline of what this means, some of the results I’ve obtained so far, and my thoughts on the usefulness of Lighthouse.

Newsletter for my blog posts

My custom newsletter template based on my website's custom theme.
My custom newsletter template based on my website’s custom theme.

I created a newsletter for blog posts on my website so you can sign up for email notifications when I post new ones, so I have more than just an RSS feed.

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This page is about something. All the content before the “more” HTML comment below will become the summary, which will be used in list pages and in the meta tags on the article.

Or, if you don’t want your description to be at the top of the article, you can set your own description in the front matter and it will override this. See the Content Summaries page on the Hugo docs for more information.

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