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+---
+title: "The Slash Page Scoop"
+date: 2024-05-30
+# lastmod: 2024-05-30
+draft: true
+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."
+featured: false
+toc: true
+reply: true
+categories: Backstage
+tags:
+  - hugo
+  - meta
+---
+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.
+
+> 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.
+
+The pages that I've implemented (so far) include:
+- [/about](/about) tells a bit about me and my background
+- [/changelog](/changelog) is just *starting* to record some of visual/functional changes I make here
+- [/colophon](/colophon) describes the technology and services used in producing/hosting this site
+- [/homelab](/homelab) isn't a canonical slash page but it provides a lot of details about my homelab setup
+- [/save](/save) shamelessly hosts referral links for things I love and think you'll love too
+- [/uses](/uses) shares the stuff I use on a regular basis
+
+And, of course, these are collected in one place at [/slashes](/slashes).
+
+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.
+
+### Implementation
+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:
+
+```
+content
+├── categories
+├── posts
+├── search
+├── 404.md
+├── _index.md
+├── about.md [tl! ~~]
+├── changelog.md  [tl! ~~]
+├── colophon.md  [tl! ~~]
+├── homelab.md  [tl! ~~]
+├── save.md  [tl! ~~]
+├── simplex.md
+└── uses.md  [tl! ~~]
+```
+
+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:
+
+```yaml
+---
+title: "/changelog"
+date: "2024-05-26"
+lastmod: "2024-05-30"
+description: "Maybe I should keep a log of all my site-related tinkering?"
+featured: false
+toc: false
+timeless: true
+categories: slashes # [tl! ~~]
+---
+```
+