Welcome to Infinite Ink, where we write about #mathematics, #philosophy, and #technology. To navigate this site, see News: What’s New at Infinite Ink, #Tags: Portals to Infinite Ink & Beyond, the old directory, and the articles below.

Published in 2026

•  Four Ways to Use the Windows 10 Context Menu in Windows 11   updated 2026-January

Published in 2025

•  Clean Install Windows⁠🧹   updated 2025-December
•  Don’t Give Up💓 (featuring PeerTube videos)   updated 2025-November
•  I Quit Updating Hugo or: Why I Use Hugo v0.122.0   updated 2025-September
•  Generating Passphrases Like “correct horse battery staple” 🎠⁠🔋   updated 2025-July
•  👉Alerts, Callouts, & Admonitions⁠👈   updated 2025-September
•  Gone Sober (for 2.5+ years⁠🌞)   updated 2025-October
•  Why Does Bluesky (bsky) Want My Birthday?   updated 2025-May

Published in 2024

•  Brad Warner, Zen Dude🎸⁠☸️⁠🧘‍♂️   updated 2024-November
•  Some Thoughts About the Wordpress Drama (including the 2005 foreshadowing)🤯⁠🍿⁠🤔   updated 2025-March
•  Knowledge and Document Management Tools⁠🗄   updated 2024-October
•  Mobile Phones, Wikipedia, and DuckDuckGo Bangs (featuring !wm)❗   updated 2024-October
•  Banfield Pet Hospital Just Lost My Business⁠🙀   updated 2024-August
•  Installing Alpine Mail on Windows (featuring Fastmail settings)   updated 2024-May
•  Why I’ve (mostly) Switched from AsciiDoc to Markdown   updated 2024-May
•  Why Does Edge Know My Real Birthday?⁠😱   updated 2024-March
•  Using Password Safe for Secret Notes and More🔏   updated 2024-April
•  Hugo Regular Expressions (featuring emoji codes & ignoreFiles⁠🙈)   updated 2024-March
•  My New Bookmarking Strategy (featuring Zotero 7)⁠🔖   updated 2024-February

Published in 2023

•  Embedding Mastodon Timelines   updated 2023-December
•  Eget: Easily Get & Install Some Apps (featuring installing the latest Hugo)   updated 2023-September
•  “Edit This Page” With vscode:// URLs (featuring a Hugo partial)   updated 2023-November
•  Installing KDE Apps on Windows (featuring Kate and Dolphin⁠🐬)   updated 2023-May
•  Calling a Hugo Partial from a Hugo Shortcode (featuring “Share on Mastodon” code)   updated 2023-April
•  Create a “Share on Mastodon” link with Hugo and Tootpick⁠🐘   updated 2023-March
•  Transforming Text with Hugo (featuring plainify, htmlUnescape, and more)   updated 2023-March

Published in 2022

•  Processing Images with Hugo (featuring flipping a bird 🐤)   updated 2022-December
•  Twitter Lists I (used to) Follow   updated 2023-August
•  My Windows Out-⁠Of-⁠Box Strategy: Local Account, Fresh Start, and More   updated 2022-October
•  A Way to Install the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Libraries   updated 2022-September
•  ∞♾️   updated 2023-May
•  Hugo’s data Directory (featuring Nitter instances)   updated 2023-August
•  YAML's Folded Block Scalars: A Way to Avoid Quoting Most Strings   updated 2022-September
•  Hugo’s intersect Function⁠⛅   updated 2022-August
•  Linux Package Management   updated 2023-December
•  Installing and Updating Extended Hugo   updated 2023-August
•  qutebrowser Key Bindings   updated 2023-May
•  Compartmentalizing Hugo Settings With a config Directory   updated 2022-July

Published in 2021

•  Configuring Security in Hugo⁠🚥   updated 2024-March
•  Hugo Shortcodes⁠📇   updated 2023-November
•  Using the Cloud to Sync Dotfiles (without using symlinks)   updated 2022-July
•  Checking SHA-256 Checksums with certutil, sha256sum, 7-⁠Zip, and Dolphin   updated 2022-July
•  Notes About Choosing a Linux Distribution⁠🐧︎   updated 2022-October
•  Meta Nope: What I’m Doing to Help Kill Facebook   updated 2022-April
•  Thinking About Windows 11 Pro and Desktop Linux   updated 2022-February
•  Using GVim Easy (also known as evim)   updated 2022-July
•  Using Vim to Store Passwords and Other Secrets in an Encrypted File⁠🔏   updated 2025-May
•  Installing GVim and Vim on Windows   updated 2025-May
•  Beautiful Bing Images on Your Computer’s Desktop   updated 2022-November
•  My Primary Cloud Storage Provider is sync.com⁠☁️   updated 2023-January
•  Specifying URL Path Segments in Hugo   updated 2021-October
•  Variable and Parameter Names in Hugo (featuring camelCase⁠🐫 and snake_case⁠🐍)   updated 2022-April
•  Hugo RawContent and Content Fingerprints⁠🆔   updated 2022-June
•  Compare Hugo’s Markup Languages (featuring inline footnotes)⁠⚖️   updated 2024-March
•  Hugo’s .RenderString Method (featuring AsciiDoc admonitions in Markdown)   updated 2024-February
•  AsciiDoc Passthroughs, Hugo, LaTeX, and MathJax on Infinite Ink   updated 2022-October
•  MathJax Kitchen Sink   updated 2021-August
•  Tau is Greater Than Pi   updated 2021-July
•  Installing and Updating qutebrowser on Windows   updated 2021-July
•  Open Up Zulip   updated 2021-November
•  Easy Way to Play With a Hugo Theme’s Example Site   updated 2023-June
•  Windows Desktop Shortcuts Give me Quick Access to Anything   updated 2022-March
•  qutebrowser Userscripts on Windows   updated 2022-May
•  Launching Git Bash in Mintty, ConEmu, VS Code’s Terminal, and Other Terminal Emulators   updated 2021-December

Published in 2020

•  🔗 Linkified Section Headings in Hugo-⁠Generated Web Pages (featuring Markdown and AsciiDoc examples)   updated 2022-March
•  Intertwingling AsciiDoc and Hugo   updated 2022-September
•  I Use This⁠🛠️   updated 2025-May
•  Scoop: A Windows Package Manager (featuring Hugo, Figlet, and Ruby)   updated 2023-August
•  Git Bash Is My Preferred Windows Shell   updated 2024-January
•  Hugo and sitemap.txt (& a bit about robots.txt)⁠🤖   updated 2025-May
•  qutebrowser Fragments and Tips⁠💡️   updated 2023-January
•  AsciiDoc Kitchen Sink   updated 2021-August
•  Introduction to Hugo Bundles⁠🎁   updated 2023-March
•  Hugo Tips⁠💡️   updated 2023-November

Published in 2019 or earlier

•  Configuring Security in Hugo⁠🚥   updated 2024-March
•  Hugo Shortcodes⁠📇   updated 2023-November
•  Using the Cloud to Sync Dotfiles (without using symlinks)   updated 2022-July
•  Checking SHA-256 Checksums with certutil, sha256sum, 7-⁠Zip, and Dolphin   updated 2022-July
•  Notes About Choosing a Linux Distribution⁠🐧︎   updated 2022-October
•  Meta Nope: What I’m Doing to Help Kill Facebook   updated 2022-April
•  Thinking About Windows 11 Pro and Desktop Linux   updated 2022-February
•  Using GVim Easy (also known as evim)   updated 2022-July
•  Using Vim to Store Passwords and Other Secrets in an Encrypted File⁠🔏   updated 2025-May
•  Installing GVim and Vim on Windows   updated 2025-May
•  My Primary Cloud Storage Provider is sync.com⁠☁️   updated 2023-January
•  Beautiful Bing Images on Your Computer’s Desktop   updated 2022-November
•  Specifying URL Path Segments in Hugo   updated 2021-October
•  Variable and Parameter Names in Hugo (featuring camelCase⁠🐫 and snake_case⁠🐍)   updated 2022-April
•  Hugo RawContent and Content Fingerprints⁠🆔   updated 2022-June
•  Compare Hugo’s Markup Languages (featuring inline footnotes)⁠⚖️   updated 2024-March
•  Hugo’s .RenderString Method (featuring AsciiDoc admonitions in Markdown)   updated 2024-February
•  AsciiDoc Passthroughs, Hugo, LaTeX, and MathJax on Infinite Ink   updated 2022-October
•  MathJax Kitchen Sink   updated 2021-August
•  Tau is Greater Than Pi   updated 2021-July
•  Installing and Updating qutebrowser on Windows   updated 2021-July
•  Open Up Zulip   updated 2021-November
•  Easy Way to Play With a Hugo Theme’s Example Site   updated 2023-June
•  Windows Desktop Shortcuts Give me Quick Access to Anything   updated 2022-March
•  qutebrowser Userscripts on Windows   updated 2022-May
•  Launching Git Bash in Mintty, ConEmu, VS Code’s Terminal, and Other Terminal Emulators   updated 2021-December
•  🔗 Linkified Section Headings in Hugo-⁠Generated Web Pages (featuring Markdown and AsciiDoc examples)   updated 2022-March
•  Intertwingling AsciiDoc and Hugo   updated 2022-September
•  I Use This⁠🛠️   updated 2025-May
•  Scoop: A Windows Package Manager (featuring Hugo, Figlet, and Ruby)   updated 2023-August
•  Git Bash Is My Preferred Windows Shell   updated 2024-January
•  Hugo and sitemap.txt (& a bit about robots.txt)⁠🤖   updated 2025-May
•  qutebrowser Fragments and Tips⁠💡️   updated 2023-January
•  AsciiDoc Kitchen Sink   updated 2021-August
•  Introduction to Hugo Bundles⁠🎁   updated 2023-March
•  Hugo Tips⁠💡️   updated 2023-November
•  Ordinary and Extraordinary Markdown   updated 2024-January
•  Commenting Code Cheatsheet   updated 2023-December
•  YAML Includes Atoms, Maps, and Lists (featuring the string ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)   updated 2022-December
•  HTML5 Kitchen Sink (featuring kittens⁠🐈)   updated 2023-February
•  qutebrowser’s Template config.py   updated 2025-January
•  Unicode Variation Selectors 15 and 16   updated 2024-August
•  Getting Started With qutebrowser   updated 2025-January
•  Hugo’s Markup Languages: AsciiDoc, Goldmark Markdown, HTML, Org-mode, Pandoc Markdown, and reStructuredText   updated 2023-March
•  Hugo Source Files, Destination Files, and Pretty URLs   updated 2021-July
•  Debugging Your Hugo Website   updated 2021-June
•  TGIH: Themeless & Gitless Introduction to the Hugo SSG (a Hugo tutorial⁠👩‍🏫)   updated 2024-April
•  ALEF SYMBOL by ℵancym   updated 2021-March
•  Vim, Unicode, and Digraphs   updated 2021-February
•  Outlook.com Aliases   updated 2013-October
•  Links and Footnotes in Markdown   updated 2022-February
•  Twitter Lists   updated 2021-February
•  History of Blogging   updated 2021-February
•  The Cloud, WebApps, and Desktop Apps   updated 2008-April
•  IUseThis: Social Networking for Nerds   updated 2007-November
•  SeaMonkey Suite and Send This Page   updated 2006-April
•  The For-Profit Mozilla Corporation, aka Mozilla DOT COM   updated 2005-August
•  Cardinal Numbers   updated 1997-June
•  All About Pine: POP, IMAP, NNTP, & ESMTP Client for Unix, MS Windows, and Mac OS X
•  Power Pine: Getting the Most Out of Unix-, Mac- & PC-⁠Pine
•  The Continuum Hypothesis

•  Reverse Spam Filtering: Winning Without Fighting
•  IMAP Service Providers
•  Procmail Quick Start