I have a Hugo blog with content in Ukrainian — posts, notes, articles, and a LiveJournal archive spanning 2007–2017. About 409 markdown files in total. And I’d long wanted to make an English version of it.

What would we do without updates.

Decided to import another batch of my old posts here.

Screwed up the blog import

How to make scaled-down images in Hugo?

An era has passed

A short note — a blog in Markdown powered by Hugo is simply a breath of fresh air after the sluggish browser-based Blogger. It renders instantly on the local machine, opens lightning-fast — including the already-published version — what a pleasure! (On top of that, it warms the soul to know the blog sits right here on my laptop and is not the property of Google.) The urge to write has come alive again.

Preamble#

For some reason, I felt like rebuilding my website by the end of 2023 — if before it just hosted the content of my blog (one of them), I wanted to turn it into a “typical” placeholder: a small static page (or a set of pages) with a collection of useful links to blogs, articles, maybe a GitHub or LinkedIn profile, and so on. What’s the best way to host something like that? GitHub Pages, of course — you write some markdown, push it to a repository, GitHub does its magic — and voilà, the site is ready. Minimum effort, maximum result, especially since https://disfinder.github.io had already existed for some time, hosting various notes I made for myself.

I decided that before the new year I want to somewhat reshape the disfinder.com domain — instead of a blog on the root page, make a landing page that would host links to the blog and some useful articles.

The reshaping turned out to be fairly easy, and the obvious choice was Github Pages, for a few reasons:

• I already have it set up
• it’s plain markdown, easy to back up just in case (unlike Blogger)

But the markdown turned out to be not so plain — it’s Jekyll — and anyone who wants to write nice, useful articles there needs to get the hang of Jekyll first.

So much has changed over the years of having that LiveJournal page…. Moving back to the homeland and back again. And another move. More moves that never got written about. Buying real estate and movable property. Significant and pleasant career changes, and even more significant — but far from pleasant — geopolitical changes….