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Moving My Blog

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:56:07 -0400

It’s this time of the year again. I’ve recently set up this little page, and I really didn’t want it to be on Github or hosted by Github Pages.

A New Theme

Mon, 21 May 2018 22:58:40 -0400

After toying around with the really nice Temple theme I decided there was no better way to spend my afternoon than building my own, new theme for my blog.

If you haven’t notice, I recently switched my blog from Jekyll to Hugo. The upgrade path from the really old version of Jekyll to the latest version wasn’t quite working as expected, and having to mess around with Gemfiles isn’t really something I enjoy. Hugo on the other hand is written in Go and comes as a single, standalone binary. That seemed really appealing and I’ve had good experiences when trying to build a little photo gallery builder with it a while ago before Hugo had actual photo support. Moving the content over from the Jekyll frontmatter to the Hugo frontmatter was done easy enough, I even moved some of the good posts from my really old blog on here. I was almost perfectly happy, exception for the theme. The Temple theme is nice, but it wasn’t quite what I wanted. So this weekend I built my own (yeah, you’re looking at it).

Horray for Jekyll

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:59:40 -0400

So I finally got around to play with Jekyll, a static site generator for websites. I was initially sceptical whether a static site generator would be up for running a blog, but after playing with it for a bit, I’m in love with this concept. The ability to write my posts in vim (MacVim that is) and version them with Git makes me very happy. As much as I like Wordpress, it’s getting more and more sluggish (on my old server at least) and every time I’m logging in to it, I spend half an hour installing updates and patches. And with every upgrade I’m worried about the database – even though, in Wordpress’ defense, no upgrade ever broke the database. Also, I’m particularly impressed with support for syntax highlighting, which is absolutely essential for technical posts. I’m still digging through the documentation and learning how to use Jekyll, but I’m getting there.