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Tags in Jekyll: related posts
Related posts are a great way to increase the engagement and retention of your blog readers. They help you showcase your other relevant and valuable content that might otherwise be overlooked or forgotten. They also improve the navigation and user experience of your blog, as they provide easy and intuitive links to explore more topics of interest. Moreover, related posts can boost your SEO and traffic, as they create more internal links and keywords for your site, and reduce the bounce rate and increase the dwell time of your visitors. In this post, I will show you how to add related posts to your Jekyll blog based on the tag functionality.
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Tags in Jekyll: a Word Cloud
On my Jekyll based blog I want to add Word Cloud on the tags page. A word cloud, with the size of the words based on the number of times the tag was used in a post. I used a similar approach in my CV. A word cloud can add value to your tags page by making it more attractive, interactive, and informative.
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Tags in Jekyll: the setup
Jekyll is a popular blog engine that allows you to create static websites with markdown files. One of the features that Jekyll offers is the ability to tag your posts with keywords that describe their content. Tags are useful for a blog because they help you organize your posts, make them easier to find, and improve your SEO. In this post, I will show you how to use tags in Jekyll and how to create a tags page and a tags feed for your blog.
Jekyll has support for tags and categories, however using the Tag functionality comes with certain gotcha’s if you want to maintain Github Pages compatibility. -
Flanders/Belgium's Capacity Tariffs in Home Assistant with Improvements
Flanders reformed the nettariffs for electricity transport, shifting a larger cost to peak usage. They do this by measuring your average consumption per 15m and the maximum quarter of the month counts as your tariff. Currently information and dashboards from Fluvius are cumbersome to use (CSV export and then leveraging Excel to spot the highest quarter). In a 2022 I wrote a quite popular blog post about how to integrate capacity tariffs in Home Assistant.
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Home Assistant: Adding a custom_component in NixOS - revisited
Since NixOS 23.11 there is a new way of packaging Home Assistant custom components, making some of the work written in earlier blog posts irrelevant. Let’s repackage the electrolux_status and it’s dependency tomeko12/pyelectroluxconnect.