How to make scaled-down images in Hugo?
One of the downsides of a Markdown-based blog is that you have to do everything by hand, including image management.
Until now I hadn’t really bothered and just shoved images in as-is, letting the browser scale them to the screen width. But having decided to finally flesh out my tools catalog a bit, I did a quick Google search for available approaches. I settled on a solution by blogger Sam — dump images into a meta-post (a fake post) and write a Hugo shortcode that pulls images from that location, resized to the requested dimensions. Since I’m neither a web designer nor a Hugo developer, I didn’t want to spend a long time tinkering — tested it, it works, commit and push, off we go.