Hugo

Two years ago, my COVID-addled brain initialised this blog. I made some pretty neat adjustments to the theme (we’ve got a cool blinking cursor in the navigation bar), my old posts are neatly organised and still reachable from their original URLs and I even wrote some actual content about how easy it was to set up Hugo. Unfortunately, upon returning to the blog, I made the following shocking discoveries: Criminally, I had not pushed the blog to a remote, necessitating an archaeological dig....

Some time ago, I contracted COVID and in my deluded state, I installed Hugo in the hope of reviving a blog I had not posted to since 2022. Too unwell to think of actually migrating my content out of Wordpress, I scraped my existing Wordpress site and archived the posts and neatly linked them from my new site. After all that good work, it has been two years since I wrote the following:...

Starting this incarnation of the blog obviously begs the question of what to do with the old Wordpress one. I am aware of several posts from around the internet that backlink the old blog, and I will absolutely not commit the internet crime of link rot. I do need to maintain the integrity of the existing pages, but I don’t want the trouble of migrating my old posts to be a prerequisite of getting started with Hugo, as I will just choose to do neither....

Eight years ago, I enumerated the reasons I shelved my Jekyll powered Github Pages site in favour of begrudgingly adopting Wordpress again. I had gone around the simplicity-complexity cycle once more and was yearning for more features (having previously wanted fewer features) and more flexibility (having previously desired less flexibility). Back in the days when my job was merely to turn up to class on time and print tat in three dimensions, I had the time and energy to learn how to install and manage arbitrary tools and services....