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+[submodule "themes/PaperMod"]
+	path = themes/PaperMod
+	url = https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod.git
diff --git a/archetypes/default.md b/archetypes/default.md
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+---
+title: "{{ replace .Name "-" " " | title }}"
+date: {{ .Date }}
+draft: true
+---
+
diff --git a/config.yml b/config.yml
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+baseURL: "https://blog.ahmza.com"
+title: Blog
+paginate: 5
+theme: PaperMod
+
+enableRobotsTXT: true
+buildDrafts: false
+buildFuture: false
+buildExpired: false
+
+minify:
+    disableXML: true
+    minifyOutput: true
+
+params:
+    env: production # to enable google analytics, opengraph, twitter-cards and schema.
+    title: Blog
+    description: "ahmza's thoughts and ideas"
+    keywords: [Blog, Homelab, IT, Portfolio, PaperMod]
+    author: ahmza
+    images: ["http://blog.ahmza.com/content/images/2021/11/Padlock-1.png"] #Change this
+    DateFormat: "January 2, 2006"
+    defaultTheme: dark # dark, light
+    disableThemeToggle: false
+
+    ShowReadingTime: true
+    ShowShareButtons: true
+    ShowPostNavLinks: true
+    ShowBreadCrumbs: true
+    ShowCodeCopyButtons: true
+    disableSpecial1stPost: false
+    disableScrollToTop: false
+    comments: false
+    hidemeta: false
+    hideSummary: false
+    showtoc: false
+    tocopen: false
+
+    assets:
+        # disableHLJS: true # to disable highlight.js
+        # disableFingerprinting: true
+        favicon: "<link / abs url>"
+        favicon16x16: "<link / abs url>"
+        favicon32x32: "<link / abs url>"
+        apple_touch_icon: "<link / abs url>"
+        safari_pinned_tab: "<link / abs url>"
+
+    label:
+        text: "Blog"
+        icon: /apple-touch-icon.png
+        iconHeight: 35
+
+    # profile-mode
+    profileMode:
+        enabled: false # needs to be explicitly set
+        title: ExampleSite
+        subtitle: "This is subtitle"
+        imageUrl: "<img location>"
+        imageWidth: 120
+        imageHeight: 120
+        imageTitle: my image
+        buttons:
+            - name: Posts
+              url: posts
+            - name: Tags
+              url: tags
+
+    # home-info mode
+    homeInfoParams:
+        Title: "Hi there \U0001F44B"
+        Content: Welcome to my blog
+
+    socialIcons:
+        - name: twitter
+          url: "https://twitter.com/4HMXA"
+        - name: LinkedIn
+          url: "https://linkedin.com/in/ahmza"
+        - name: github
+          url: "https://github.com/4hmz4"
+
+    cover:
+        hidden: true # hide everywhere but not in structured data
+        hiddenInList: true # hide on list pages and home
+        hiddenInSingle: true # hide on single page
+
+    editPost:
+        URL: "https://github.com/4hmz4/blog/content"
+        Text: "Suggest Changes" # edit text
+        appendFilePath: true # to append file path to Edit link
+
+    # for search
+    # https://fusejs.io/api/options.html
+    fuseOpts:
+        isCaseSensitive: false
+        shouldSort: true
+        location: 0
+        distance: 1000
+        threshold: 0.4
+        minMatchCharLength: 0
+        keys: ["title", "permalink", "summary", "content"]
+menu:
+    main:
+        - identifier: categories
+          name: categories
+          url: /categories/
+          weight: 10
+        - identifier: tags
+          name: tags
+          url: /tags/
+          weight: 20
+        - identifier: example
+          name: blog.ahmza.com
+          url: https://blog.ahmza.com
+          weight: 30
+# Read: https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod/wiki/FAQs#using-hugos-syntax-highlighter-chroma
+# pygmentsUseClasses: true
+# markup:
+#     highlight:
+#         # anchorLineNos: true
+#         codeFences: true
+#         guessSyntax: true
+#         lineNos: true
+#         style: monokai
diff --git a/content/posts/welcome.md b/content/posts/welcome.md
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+---
+title: "Welcome"
+date: 2021-12-01T13:36:08Z
+draft: false
+---
+
+### Hello World
+
+The mandatory hello world when you start something new.
+
+I'd like to say thank you for visiting my site and I hope that you
+gain something valuable from it.
+
+### A bit about me
+
+I'm currently based in the UK in the early stages of my career. And
+like most people - possibly you - I am very interested in learning
+new technologies and techniques.
+
+I get bored fairly easily and so I have to keep my self busy by
+learning new stuff. The reason this site exists is because I wanted
+to learn how web servers work and long the way I learned a lot of
+other stuff too.
+
+I feel If you are interested in something then definitely go ahead
+and try to learn it I'm sure you will learn a lot more than you
+expect. Like a lot of people say
+
+    Its about the Journey as much as it is the destination
+
+I have always tinkered and naturally gained an interest for
+technology, I don't limit myself to one part of tech I try to dabble
+a bit in everything. I love photography as you operate the camera and
+in certain situations have to learn to develop film 😂 but I also get
+to incorporate the creative side.
+
+Check out my photography focused site here photos.ahmza.com
+
+If you would like to learn more about me then feel free to contact me
+on any of my social media.
diff --git a/themes/PaperMod b/themes/PaperMod
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+Subproject commit 386d84578278d44f4f70c9ed2cebba9623c4007b