Michael O’Connell

馃憢 Hey Michael here, I’m Building Products, Publicly Learning and Documenting my experiences.

You can expect content about products I’m creating, cool JavaScript libraries I find, and my thoughts on work and life… and probably more.

Fixing hugo build on vercel

Fixing hugo build on vercel

Hugo and Vercel Build Error The issue Recently I switched this blog from Nuxt to Hugo, main reason being that the Nuxt solution was cobbled together and Hugo just works, or so I thought. I use Vercel to host this blog and have continuous integration set up with GitHub, so that when I push a new post to the GitHub repo the website automatically rebuilds and deploys. The issue occurs in vercels build logs....

August 30, 2021 路 2 min 路 Michael O'Connell

My first post sucked, and starting to blog again

Starting to blog again What? I had the idea to start building products and blogging the experience after a really shit 2020, and realising I needed more streams of income, should something like this covid pandemic happen again. So naturally, I spend too long picking a blogging software, which ended up being somebodyelses blog repo from github and repurposing it. I then went on to write exactly one blog post shit blog post, about the shitstorm that was 2020, what went well, what didn鈥檛, and whats next....

August 26, 2021 路 3 min 路 Michael O'Connell

2020 was meh! Heres the plan for 2021

This is an old post, as an example of a not so great post. The shitstorm that was 2020 I had a lot of plans for 2020, mainly personal and some business. Something happened in March that caused our entire country of Ireland to enter a lockdown. This something that happened meant I ended up stuck in an apartment built for two people, there was four of us, shit internet, and a little depressed (poor me)....

December 29, 2020 路 3 min 路 Michael O'Connell