Lmst

Can we get an #eli5 on all the #jirai tagged posts on isle 5 please?

EDIT: OMG thank you 1,000 times to @christianlupus for your amazing help. You have saved my (increasingly endangered) hair from being pulled out over the next week. Others have also made excellent suggestions, and I am grateful to everyone who said even a word. I was becoming very frustrated with this, and now it's starting to make sense!

Original post below.

How the @#$% does #Hugo (static website generator) work with Github? Hundreds of pages reference #github but I still can't find how that works. Almost every Hugo help site says "add this reference to [a? your?] github repo..." but don't explain what the heck is happening or why I need that... why do I need a github repo to have a website somewhere else?

Clearly I don't need it; I have a hugo site up and running, and at no point was github involved.... except nothing would work until I initalized (?) my hugo directory (or the executable? IDK) on my webhost's server using a git command. For some reason.

I seriously don't understand why (or, more importantly, how) Hugo needs github. Right now dozens or hundreds of help sites seem like they're telling me that I need to have a shrine to my cat in my neighbor's house or else my blender won't work.

Lots of references to using github submodules and plenty of people saying "No! You fool! Don't do that!" and other people saying "Ackshully you should make your website a github module." Then other sites (including Hugo's official site) saying I should make my website into a #go module somehow for some reason... and I can't do that unless I have a github repo somewhere? Which is also maybe a Go module? Yet more sites saying I don't need to do that if I use some fancy scripts to fool something (my Hugo installation? My github repo? IDK) into thinking my Hugo site is or has a github repo...

If anyone would like to explain this to me like I'm literally 12 years old I'm very open to this. Every help site I've seen for weeks just assumes I understand some basic things that I don't remotely understand, like what the connection is between Hugo and github, how important it is, how it works, etc.

Understanding that I already have a functioning Hugo site, but apparently still need a github repo (maybe?) to do anything more interesting with it.

I know I'm using Mastodon as tech support a lot lately, but honestly y'all are more helpful than most search engines for some things.

#golang #webdev #confused #help #eli5

When did the world decide that a funnel is the correct icon abstraction for a filter? How? #wtf #gui #graphicdesign #eli5

BMW M Motorsport (@BMWMotorsport):

We’ll start: it’s legendary because it showed up, raced hard, and won. A lot. #ELI5 https://t.co/5eyUoDYiil

#F1 #F1bot #F1FEN

https://x.com/BMWMotorsport/status/2019079002934136989

@marcioaleks

I'm gonna need an #ELI5 on this one. XD

Wozu braucht Europa eigentlich "W" als "Alternative zu X"?

#ELI5

#ELI5 Wenn Topmanager ihre Millionengehälter immer mit Verantwortung begründen, was meinen sie genau damit?

How comes that both the gas giants and inner rocky planets feature a magnetic field despite being built so differently? I assume the gas giants don't have an interior iron core or smth like that

#astronomy #gasGiants #planet #magnetism #eli5

I am amazed what other people write when asked to #ELI5.

Like, I only understood this because I am a few days older than uh...30 years and having dealt with IT basically my whole life.

#eli5 the #forkiverse stuff ... Please someone? I'm massively out of the loop on this one. 😂 😂

Okay, can someone #ELI5 what the #Forkiverse is? :blobcatcomfnight:

At the risk of sounding stupid, is it a fork of #Mastodon, or a (just) a regular Mastodon server called the Forkiverse?

Either way, sounds fascinating!

@xgranade

Can someone #ELI5 this for me? :E

cc: dalias@hachyderm.io

#ELI5 how the #USA incursion in to #Venezuela and the removal of #Maduro is totally different from the #USA incursion into #Iraq and the removal of #Saddam. Other than the current administration not bothering to build a fraudulent case first and just acting on their first #boner.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782

I do wonder how many developers and how long they to spend #eli5 it with their hands and feet to their new brilliant CEO why forcing #ai upon us was a bad idea and got him to agree to the #firefoxkillswitch