BurgeonLab
BurgeonLab
Naty S
Naty's personal site, built with IndieWeb principles, is where she writes about tinkering with technology and hobbies. She likes to write how-to guides on things she's learnt and is passionate about open source, Hugo, online privacy, and self-hosting.
Latest Posts
Maintaining My Own Brew TapNo, not beer; but for Homebrew, the package manager which I have used for over five years…? I don’t know how I lived without it before! I have decided to maintain my own tap for the first time because of the...
Site UpdatesLast week I added a feature using Hugo’s data/ folder to store cached Mastodon post data as .json files for my Mastodon embeds. When Hugo builds the site, it doesn’t have to connect to the internet to fetch each post’s...
Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2026I’m attending an in-person event this weekend related to my one of my passions for the very first time; open source! Came across the HKOSCon on Mastodon via @sammyfung, the founder of Open Source Hong...
What Is This?This page serves as a documentation of the visual elements used on BurgeonLab. As explained on the IndieWeb wiki, it’s a page that describes either the writing or visual styles used on a site. I don’t know when my “big theme...
Why I Created ThisI have heard of bloggers1 accidentally publishing draft posts and I would feel stressed just hearing about it. In my fourth year writing with Hugo, +95k words later, I also managed to accidentally publish a draft post!...
IndieWeb UpdatesAn IndieWeb blogger I followed for a long time, Brennan, followed me on Mastodon! What’s even cooler was having him join the Homebrew Website Club: Pacific last week! His blog and writing are often mentioned in the...
My WordPress Replacement: ZensicalIn the last few days, I’ve been experimenting with a new SSG (Zensical) as a replacement for my secondary site that’s still running WordPress—the CMS I learnt to create my first website. Once the...
In Real LifeLast week I caught up with my college classmate for dinner. It was really lovely as it reminded me of all the good times in Ireland! One thing we chatted about was the recent rise of popularity (and value!) of Pokémon trading...
I thought my secondary blog (with WordPress backend) wouldn’t auto-update, but I think I missed the setting on Hostinger. So sadly my site is now running the new 7.0 with AI features 🤮. I immediately added the disable AI features line to...
ProblemI have written nearly 30 weeknotes so far and a recurring section in all weeknotes is the “Link Roundup” where I share interesting links I came across that week (aka Link Dumps). The process of manually fetching the title and...
Signing Git CommitsGetting a verified lock icon for my signed Git commits took longer than expected! It’s all set up now in the end via SSH keys (and not GPG keys). GPG Didn’t WorkDuring my email migration from Tuta to Mailbox.org, I...
In Progress I’m officially migrating over from Tuta to Mailbox.org! I’ve paid for a year of the Standard tier (€30 annually). Hope the experience will be an upgrade from Tuta. It took roughly 18 hours for the new DNS rules to propagate...
Hantavirus and Andes virus 101As a trained medical professional, I feel the need to inform and raise awareness of the latest MV Hondius (cruise ship) hantavirus outbreak in early May 2026. Here is a quick rundown of facts about...
Fixed Mac Mini M1 (2020) Disk CorruptionHurray! The drive corruption warning is fixed after first turning off FileVault and repairing the Macintosh-HD volume via the terminal in Recovery Mode. Find the name of the disk to fix, mine is...
One of my favourite bloggers, Kev, did Hyde’s Over/Under interview! I knew Kev loves animals but I didn’t know he had so much fish as well! Kev is the creator of #100DaysToOffload in case you didn’t know. 😉 [For up-to-date content, visit...