DeepLearning.Earth

Technical blog on oriented object detection for Earth Observation and the oriented-det package: https://deeplearning.earth

• Home (/) — recent posts (blog index)
• About (/about/) — author bio, photo, company, and social links

Built with Hugo and the hugo-coder theme (git submodule at themes/hugo-coder).

Local development

git submodule update --init --recursive
hugo server -D

Open http://localhost:1313/.

Requires Hugo Extended (for SCSS). The Netlify config pins HUGO_VERSION in netlify.toml.

oriented-det venv (inference / odet CLI)

Posts that run oriented-det inference expect the package’s uv venv. This repo does not vendor Python deps; direnv activates the sibling install when you cd here.

Default path: ~/Projects/oriented-det/.venv. One-time:

direnv allow

If the repo lives elsewhere, copy .envrc.local.example to .envrc.local and set ORIENTED_DET_ROOT. Verify:

which odet
odet --version   # or: python -c "import oriented_det; print(oriented_det.__file__)"

Create the venv in the oriented-det repo (see its installation docs):

cd ~/Projects/oriented-det
uv venv --python 3.12
uv pip install torch torchvision
uv pip install -r requirements.txt
uv pip install -e .

Deploy (Netlify)

Settings are defined in netlify.toml:

• Build command: hugo --minify
• Publish directory: public
• Environment: HUGO_VERSION, GIT_SUBMODULE_STRATEGY=recursive

After pushing to main, Netlify installs Hugo, initializes the theme submodule, and builds. If the Netlify UI still overrides build settings, either clear those overrides or align them with netlify.toml.

Content

Posts live under content/posts/. The about page is content/about.md (layout: layouts/_default/about.html). Static assets (images, favicon) are under static/.

Taxonomies: tags, categories, and series (see config.toml). The oriented-det series hub is at /series/oriented-det/ (content/series/oriented-det/_index.md). Legacy YOLO/Kaggle posts use categories: ["archive"].

URLs: Blog home is /. /posts/ redirects to / on Netlify (individual posts stay at /posts/<slug>/).

Layout overrides

• layouts/index.html — blog home (post list) instead of the theme’s avatar landing page
• layouts/posts/li.html — post title plus description on list pages
• layouts/_default/about.html — about page with avatar and social links
• layouts/partials/header.html — menu target/rel support and theme header build fix
• layouts/partials/list.html — taxonomy/series list pages use the same post list markup
• layouts/posts/list.html — /posts/ section list (redirects to / on Netlify)
• assets/css/custom.css — single-column blog layout (post list, about page, post meta)
• assets/css/medium-zoom.css — overlay styles for click-to-zoom images (medium-zoom)
• assets/js/medium-zoom.min.js + assets/js/image-zoom.js — click-to-zoom on post images
• layouts/_default/_markup/render-image.html — markdown images get class post-image-zoom (strips #layoutTextWidth from URLs)