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Adding Netlify CMS to Existing Hugo Site

In this tutorial, I will walk you through adding the Netlify CMS to your existing Hugo site. The Netlify CMS is an open source content management system that will allow authorized editors to add or edit content on your site using an easy to use user interface. In this tutorial, we will be adding the Netlify CMS to a Hugo site, but you can add it to any site that you would like as long as it was built by a static site generator....

July 22, 2022 · 5 min

Creating a blog with Hugo & Netlify

In this tutorial we will be building a blog using Hugo and deploying it to Netlify. Install Hugo Head over to the Hugo installation docs to install Hugo. If you are using a Mac, the best way to install it is by using Homebrew. brew install hugo If you are using a Windows machine, the best way to install it is by using Chocolatey. choco install hugo -confirm Verify that you have installed Hugo before moving on....

July 11, 2022 · 5 min

Basics of Machine Learning

Machine learning and artificial intelligence is everywhere nowadays. All of the ads that you see on your instagram that seem to be too accurate and too tailored to you and your interests - that’s machine learning! The recommended products that you see while browsing your favorite shops on the internet - that’s machine learning! According to Google, the definition of machine learning is: “the use and development of computer systems that are able to learn and adapt without following explicit instructions, by using algorithms and statistical models to analyze and draw inferences from patterns in data....

July 1, 2022 · 2 min

How to Create a React Application

create-react-app is a project by Facebook to get a React application spun up quickly. It is the easiest and fastest way to get started as it creates a started app for you to dive right into. We will use npx which is a Node.js package runner. npx allows us to execute Node.js commands without having to download them on our system. You will run the following command in your terminal....

December 30, 2021 · 1 min

Start a server with Node.js

To start a server with Node.js, we will need the http module. The http module is a core module which means that it comes with Node, so we won’t need any other dependencies. Here is the code that will accomplish this: const http = require(‘http’); const hostname = “127.0.0.1”; const port = 3000; const server = http.createServer((request, response) => { response.statusCode = 200; response.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/plain"); response.end("Hello World! I am a server....

June 17, 2021 · 1 min