Hello Hugo

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....