What's Up Mookie?

August 9, 2020 4-minute read

fun

I have never been one to want to go out – I am a total homebody. So, I have been finding stuff to keep myself busy lately, here’s what I have been up to.

Structured Data

I added Structured Data to my Movie Reviews for rich search results. The basis of the work was using the instructions found here. Then I had to change the schema.html file for movie reviews instead of a generic blog posting. I also added LinkedIn as one of the social networks. The schema.html file I created looks like:

<script type="application/ld+json">
    {{ if eq .Section "movies" }}
    {
      "@context": "https://schema.org",
      "@type": "Review",
      "itemReviewed": {
        "@type": "Movie",
        "sameAs": {{ .Permalink | absURL }},
        {{ if isset .Params "schema_image" }}
          "image": {{ .Params.schema_image | absURL }},
        {{ else }}
          "image": {{ .Site.Params.logo | absURL }},
        {{ end }}
        "name": {{ .Title }}
      },
      "author": {
        "@type": "Person",
        "name": {{ .Site.Params.author }},
        "sameAs": {{ .Site.BaseURL }}
      },
      "description": {{ .Summary | plainify | safeHTML }},
      "datePublished": {{ .PublishDate }},
      "dateModified": {{ .Lastmod }},
      "mainEntityOfPage": { "@type": "WebPage" },
       "publisher": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": {{ .Site.Params.header }},
        "sameAs": {{ .Site.BaseURL }},
        "logo": {
          "@type": "ImageObject",
          "url": {{ .Site.Params.logo | absURL }}
        }
      },
      "keywords": [{{ range $i, $e := .Params.tags }}{{ if $i }}, {{ end }}{{ $e }}{{ end }}]
    }
    {{ end }}
    {{ if or (eq .Section "posts") (eq .Section "photos") }}
    {
      "@context": "https://schema.org",
      "@type": "Article",
      "author": {
        "@type": "Person",
        "name": {{ .Site.Params.author }},
        "sameAs": {{ .Site.BaseURL }}
      },
      "headline": {{ .Title }},
      "datePublished": {{ .PublishDate }},
      "dateModified": {{ .Lastmod }},
      {{ if isset .Params "schema_image" }}
          "image": {{ .Params.schema_image | absURL }},
      {{ else }}
          "image": {{ .Site.Params.logo | absURL }},
      {{ end }}
      "mainEntityOfPage": { "@type": "WebPage" },
       "publisher": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": {{ .Site.Params.header }},
        "sameAs": {{ .Site.BaseURL }},
        "logo": {
          "@type": "ImageObject",
          "url": {{ .Site.Params.logo | absURL }}
        }
      },
      "keywords": [{{ range $i, $e := .Params.tags }}{{ if $i }}, {{ end }}{{ $e }}{{ end }}]
    }
    {{ end }}
    {
      "@context": "https://schema.org",
      "@type": "Organization",
      "name": {{ printf "%s: %s" .Site.Params.header .Site.Params.author }},
      "url": {{ .Site.BaseURL }},
      "sameAs": [
        "https://www.instagram.com/{{ .Site.Params.instagram }}",
        "https://twitter.com/{{ .Site.Params.twitter }}",
        "https://github.com/{{ .Site.Params.github }}",
        "https://www.youtube.com/c/{{ .Site.Params.youtube }}",
        "https://www.linkedin.com/in/{{ .Site.Params.linkedin }}"
      ]
    }
</script>

Then for the picture in the rich data to work, add this meta data for Hugo in the post:

schema_image: "URL_TO_PICTURE"

Vault Clean Up

I spent time going through The Vault and cleaning up.

For the 2001-2013 stuff, I split the one large index.html file into smaller ones that are bound by years. I also added navigation at the bottom of each old entry.

The 2013-2019 stuff I have been slowly migrating those entries over to the main site because they were all written in Markdown and it is simply a matter of adding the right Hugo metadata to move them over. There’s a lot to move over and I am about half-way done moving things.

Open Graph Image

I added images for Open Graph to posts (aka og:image meta tags). It required adding this to the meta data for Hugo:

images: ["URL_TO_PICTURE"]

Twitter

I figured out how to add a custom twitter:site meta tag to the existing ones already generated by Hugo to make a complete Twitter Summary Card for posts. It was as easy as adding this to my Hugo configuration file:

[Social]
 twitter = "ultramookie"

Hugo

Hugo is an impressively powerful piece of software and I keep finding new things about it to play with.

Movies

I watched a bunch of movies and wrote about them. There were quite a few good ones like The Old Guard, Archive, The Invisible Man and Sea Fever.

I did torture myself by watching Michael Bay parody a Michael Bay film: 6 Underground.

Running

I crossed the 1,000 miles mark near the end of July. It took me almost all year to get to 1,000 miles in 2018 and only seven months in 2020.

I took my new Hoka One One Bondi 6 shoes out for a run.

Gaming

I have been flying around in Ghost Recon Breakpoint – mostly causing chaos in the open world and sometimes spending time on the actual campaign missions.

Camry XSE

Shiny Camry XSE If I ever do get out of the house, it is going to be in a clean car because I washed and waxed the Mach 5.