Mixed nuts #18

AVIF support in Hugo, hashes in action(s), floaters, and clankers.For no major reason other than that I feel like writing about a few odds and ends which have recently occupied my mind, here’s yet another “Mixed nuts” post. Although I haven’t yet tried it on this here site, the Hugo static site generator has added AVIF support to its already impressive image processing capabilities as of v.0.162.0. The curious may want to check out this demo repo and its corresponding site. Note that, apparently, not all browsers handle the HDR aspects equally well. When I build this site through CI/CD, I typically use a GitHub Action which, in turn, calls on other actions to facilitate things — e.g., checkout for accessing the site repo’s contents. After reading about one supply-chain attack after another over the last few months, I finally decided to heed widely discussed advice and pin those actions by their respective commit-hashes, not their release tags. This means that even if a bad actor…