Back at it again

Well I certainly haven’t done much with this lately. Part of that is I just feel like I didn’t have much to say and part of it is the setup I had was a little too much of a pain to deploy. Because, you know, actually having to log in and push 2 or 3 buttons is so much of a pain. Anyway, I got a bug up my butt and figured out how to build things with AWS and GitHub and did a small project over at Evil Peep which has been sitting dormant for around 12 years. I figured while I was at it I might was well implement it for my site and use the opportunity to move from my old domain to this one! While I’m at it I figured I’d document what I did to make it all work.

Tiktok shortcode for Hugo

When i was trying to post my adorable Tiktok of a wee baby duck that was just hatching, I couldn’t find anything about embedding Tiktoks into Hugo. I tried just pasting the embed code into a markdown page, but it didn’t work so I wrote a quick and dirty shortcode to do it:

tiktok.html:

Save this code in \layouts\shortcodes\tiktok.html

<script async src="https://www.tiktok.com/embed.js"></script> 
   
<blockquote class="tiktok-embed" cite="https://www.tiktok.com/{{ .Get "usr" }}/video/{{ .Get "id" }}" data-video-id="{{ .Get "id" }}" style="max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;" > 
<section> 
   	<a target="_blank" title="@chaos46692" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@chaos46692">@chaos46692</a> 
   	<p></p> 
   	<a target="_blank" title="Music" href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/{{ .Get "music" }}">Music</a> 
</section> 
</blockquote> 

Parameters

On a tiktok video when you select “Share” there will be an option to Embed

I’ve had a lot of fun setting up Hugo to set it up how I want. I will caveat this with a few things - I tried to do things the right way (not editing the theme directly) but I’m really really really fucking impatient and in a lot of cases I just edited the theme because I don’t want to deal with this shit. I’m never going to update it so screw it.

While setting up this website I was constantly greeted by this in my address bar:

I have no real reason for it to piss me off but it surely did. This must be remedied.

My hosting is different from my registrar/DNS so accomplishing it took a little more work than it might if you have all that stuff in one place. I use namecheap as my registrar/DNS and HostPapa for my hosting (mostly because I used to use Lunarpages and they got bought by HostPapa). I don’t necessarily recommend any of these services - I am lazy and interia accounts for a lot of why I’m with them, I’m just telling you where I’m coming from.