Working with this Hugo site in GitHub Codespaces

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I wanted to learn a bit more about using devcontainers and GitHub CodeSpaces, and thought the code/content repo for this site would be a good place to start. I started with the community-contributed Hugo devcontainer config, and made the following changes: • change the Hugo variant to - needed by the SASS elements in the site third-party theme • added a feature to include Go in the build - needed because the theme is included via a module The final version is shown at the end of this post. Given these symptoms my working assumption is that this is to do with a mismatch between windows permissions model / user ids and the container, but I haven’t had time to investigate further. It supports remote development from a local IDE but for many the key benefit is the provision of a web-based version of Visual Studio Code. There is plenty of documentation on how to set this up, and it all worked as it says, or at least until I tried to run a development build of the site with , which I found would randomly crash.

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