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Friday, October 10, 2025

Friday, October 10, 2025

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I finally got around to updating Hugo’s image_render.html so that I can use normal Markdown for images rather than a Hugo shortcode. I used the version from Alec’s blog and it seems to work great. Here’s an example:

An image alt text
We’ll miss beach season!

Markdown-mode in Emacs can hide markup so things feel a bit more WYSIWYG, but I’ve turned that off by default. Don’t WYSIWYG Markdown editors sort of defeat one of the purposes of Markdown? Plus, I don’t get confused about what is actually in the post this way. I can see the URL for links without C-c C-l-ing all the time.


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