Introduction As I’ve mentioned before, this site is built with Hugo as a static site generator. Hugo is great and if you follow the quickstart guide you’ll have a site up and running right quick. However, if you’re like me and you’re developing your own Hugo themes and want to keep your content in a separate repo because you post from multiple devices, etc. then you’ll need something a little more advanced.

Introduction Ionicons is a great icon set created by the Ionic team. Whereas a lot of sets have pulled back from including logos, Ionicons has a large set builtin, it’s MIT licensed, and looks great on web, Android and iOS. Because it supports both SVG and web font there are a lot of ways to use Ionicons in your project. This site uses Hugo so my goal is make Ionicons available both as a partial and shortcode without Javascript.

Introduction We all love apps, right? They’re easy to use and at least in theory are verified and provided by a trusted source. But something about apps, in their current state, just doesn’t feel right to an open source enthusiast, does it? Sure, there’s F-Droid which is a great project and a handful of open source phones and/or phone OSes, yet, at the moment these target a pretty specialized audience.

Kia Ora, this is TryFOSS.com’s first post, how exciting!