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title: "The Slash Page Scoop"
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date: 2024-05-30
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# lastmod: 2024-05-30
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draft: true
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description: "I've added new slash pages to the site to share some background info on who I am, what I use, and how this site works."
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featured: false
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toc: true
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reply: true
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categories: Backstage
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tags:
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- hugo
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- meta
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---
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Inspired by [Robb Knight](https://rknight.me/)'s recent [slash pages](https://slashpages.net/) site, I spent some time over the past week or two drafting some slash pages of my own.
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> Slash pages are common pages you can add to your website, usually with a standard, root-level slug like `/now`, `/about`, or `/uses`. They tend to describe the individual behind the site and are distinguishing characteristics of the IndieWeb.
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The pages that I've implemented (so far) include:
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- [/about](/about) tells a bit about me and my background
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- [/changelog](/changelog) is just *starting* to record some of visual/functional changes I make here
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- [/colophon](/colophon) describes the technology and services used in producing/hosting this site
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- [/homelab](/homelab) isn't a canonical slash page but it provides a lot of details about my homelab setup
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- [/save](/save) shamelessly hosts referral links for things I love and think you'll love too
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- [/uses](/uses) shares the stuff I use on a regular basis
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And, of course, these are collected in one place at [/slashes](/slashes).
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Feel free to stop here if you just want to check out the slash pages, or keep on reading for some nerd stuff about how I implemented them on my Hugo site.
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### Implementation
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All of my typical blog posts get created within the site's Hugo directory under `content/posts/`, like this one at `content/posts/the-slash-page-scoop/index.md`. They get indexed, automatically added to the list of posts on the home page, and show up in the RSS feed. I don't want my slash pages to get that treatment so I made them directly inside the `content` directory:
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```
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content
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├── categories
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├── posts
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├── search
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├── 404.md
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├── _index.md
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├── about.md [tl! ~~]
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├── changelog.md [tl! ~~]
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├── colophon.md [tl! ~~]
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├── homelab.md [tl! ~~]
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├── save.md [tl! ~~]
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├── simplex.md
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└── uses.md [tl! ~~]
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```
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Easy enough, but I didn't then want to have to worry about manually updating a list of slash pages so I used [Hugo's Taxonomies](https://gohugo.io/content-management/taxonomies/) feature for that. I simpled tagged each page with a new `slashes` category by adding it to the post's front matter:
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```yaml
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---
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title: "/changelog"
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date: "2024-05-26"
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lastmod: "2024-05-30"
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description: "Maybe I should keep a log of all my site-related tinkering?"
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featured: false
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toc: false
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timeless: true
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categories: slashes # [tl! ~~]
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---
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```
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