Ibrahim Ahmed

Web Development

Trials and Tribulations of Maintaining a Hugo Blog

Sep 30, 2017 | 5 min read
Categories: DevOps, Developer,
Tags: Hugo, Powershell, Web Development,
Lessons from restructuring a Hugo site's repository layout to cleanly separate source content from rendered HTML output.

Optimizing static sites with hugo

Feb 6, 2017 | 3 min read
Categories: Developer, Meta, DevOps,
Tags: Hugo, Javascript, Web Development,
Cutting page weight on a Hugo static site by trimming JavaScript bloat from third-party libraries like jQuery, code highlighters, and math renderers.

Parsing websites on a budget

Jul 23, 2015 | 2 min read
Categories: Developer,
Tags: Javascript, Web App, Web Development, Web Scraping, Yql,
How to fetch content from another website client-side using Yahoo Query Language (YQL) as a workaround for the same-origin policy, without a server.