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How I (with AI's help) translated 409 blog articles in one session

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Hugo Update

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 02:23:40 -0500

What would we do without updates.

Importing LJ

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 02:09:12 -0400

Decided to import another batch of my old posts here.

Import collisions

Sun, 13 Oct 2024 21:52:50 -0400

Screwed up the blog import

Image thumbnails

Sun, 13 Oct 2024 21:06:28 -0400

How to make scaled-down images in Hugo?

The tivasyk domain is gone

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 05:37:15 -0400

An era has passed

On Hugo, Once Again

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 03:00:20 -0500

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.

Yet Another Blog - Hugo

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 22:40:02 -0500

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.

what to write articles in?

Tue, 26 Dec 2023 04:27:00 +0000

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.

Dropping LiveJournal

Tue, 18 Apr 2017 21:21:00 +0000

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….

Moving 2

Tue, 10 May 2011 11:06:00 +0000

Recently I got my own domain: http://disfinder.com

My Tumblr blog — the one at http://disfinder.tumblr.com — is now hosted there.

Here, at <p.disfinder.com>, there will be a Blogger blog. I’ll tinker a bit with themes — everyone seems to praise Blogger. Let’s see how it goes.

Having as many as three diaries is a bit of a drag — this one, LiveJournal, and Tumblr.

The current breakdown is roughly this:

Tumblr — only about IT, and with at least some practical value
LiveJournal — about personal life
here — about IT stuff with no practical value. For example, “Microsoft bought Skype. Oh no oh no.”

Happy reading, my dear readers!

moving

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:25:00 +0000

I had long since grown disillusioned with Blogger, and for quite some time now I’ve been writing on LiveJournal. The main advantage — threaded comments. But now I’ve decided to write a bit on the Tumblr platform as well, so if anyone is interested in my graphomania — the address is: http://disfinder.tumblr.com

UPD from 2024#

Tumblr as a platform somehow went downhill and was abandoned. They sent emails saying “we’ll delete your account if you don’t click here”, I clicked once, and then stopped bothering — there was nothing interesting there anyway, so that page is gone for good, and rightly so.