The following has only been tested on iOS

Opening the blog on a desktop is great, of course.

But opening it on mobile and saving it as a bookmark to the home screen gives a rather peculiar experience.

Other bookmarks like Grafana and UptimeKuma open in full-screen mode and feel super smooth.

But my own blog bookmark, when tapped, redirects to open in Safari — which is confusing.

A quick search turned up both the cause and the fix.

Safari docs

Turns out you can control this via meta tags. Luckily the Hugo theme I use is simple enough that I can override the default HTML head by creating layouts/partials/extend_head.html.

(Never thought I’d be reading Safari documentation one day.)