Posts on books and languages

[jayeless]

So I posted a quick "note post" that I started reading La pasión según Carmela.

I posted a link to an article about Catalan nationalists joining the Esperanto movement early last century (that link goes straight to the article, not to my note post about it, haha). Basically as Esperanto was designed to be a universal second language, the movement was predisposed to defend and celebrate regional cultures in opposition to the dominant "central" culture (Castilian in Spain). So not only was Esperanto itself compatible with keeping speaking Catalan, but conferences and such also provided good opportunities to showcase Catalan culture to a broader audience.

I wrote a long post about how Australia devalues language learning, prompted by a number of universities announcing that they'll axe various courses in community languages.

On my new static site, I also published a review of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab, which I ended up enjoying. Despite a slow middle section, the ending brought it all together really well.

I posted a link to a useful guide called "make a Hugo blog from scratch". The actual Hugo website has a Quick Start guide which is indeed fantastic as what it says on the tin, but the rest of the official Hugo docs seemed to me very technical, like they assumed you basically already knew what you were doing. If you actually want to configure your Hugo site by making your own theme or using custom post metadata, and you need more scaffolding than the official docs provide, then the guide I've linked to should be your next stop.

I also had a few photo posts: cat in tall grass, our local dog beach on a humid, overcast day and a Colombian-style chicken and rice dish I made (a recipe is linked to from the description there).