How to reduce the length of the site stylesheet filename?

[davidsneighbour]

The fingerprint is there to compare the content of your stylesheet against that fingerprint and go sure, that there is no pampering done between the server and the browser. You are using it to add it to a filename which is useless and overwork for Hugo, the server, and the browser. Just do a random string if you need a cachebuster.

Fingerprint

Generate a random string

I recently fixed an issue where I needed to generate a random string. The string had to be random, even if given the same input seed. In short, there is a shortcode that creates “expandables” with a little js. Each expandable generates its html id based off the md5 hash of the shortcode’s .Inner content. Well, if two expandables had the same inner content, then things would break. My solution was: Get the md5 hash of the seed string Split that into an array Shuffle the array Convert the array…