https://til.andrew-quinn.me/tags/dotflags/ Recent content in Dotflags on Andrew Quinn's TILs https://til.andrew-quinn.me/papermod-cover.png https://til.andrew-quinn.me/papermod-cover.png Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/the-art-of-dotflags-nojekyll/ Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/the-art-of-dotflags-nojekyll/ <p>This weekend I&rsquo;ve been <del>procrastinating</del> playing the long game by getting some nice workflows set up for my <a href="https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/til">TIL content repository</a> and its associated <a href="https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/til-site">website</a> (cf <a href="https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/the-art-of-dotflags-nojekyll/#context">Context</a>, below). If all goes well, by the time I hit <code>:wq</code> on this TIL, it should invisibly trigger 2 Git commits, a Hugo build, and then appear on the site fully-birthed.</p> <p>One of the more interesting patterns I noticed was the <a href="https://github.blog/2009-12-29-bypassing-jekyll-on-github-pages/"><code>.nojekyll</code> empty file</a> which I had to build to get GH Pages to stop tussling with my Hugo Action for turf. <code>.nojekyll</code> is <em>technically</em> a dotfile, but it doesn&rsquo;t actually contain any content - its mere existence is enough to change behavior. And that makes their existence a really interesting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance">design affordance</a> offered to us developers by the filesystems we use every day but rarely think about.</p>