Programming

I think I found my new favourite thing about Claude Code: using it to upgrade Hugo. Switching to a static blog generator was supposed to make things easier, but given how infrequently I actually write anything here, every time I sat down I’d fight with the latest version of Hugo for a while and sometimes just give up. (Of course I probably didn’t really need to upgrade Hugo, especially since I Dockerized it… but I have some sort of weird obsession to keep my systems and tools always up to date). ...

I acquired a copy of Learn to Program with Minecraft from No Starch Press a while ago but only recently decided to crack it open. Multiple versions of Minecraft, Spigot, and Python have been release since, but the provided zip file on the publisher’s website hasn’t been kept up to date. I took some time to figure out how to replicate the setup and figured I’d write it down for posterity. These instructions are for Windows 11. ...