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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.

User Manual

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 02:15:18 -0500

Write a manual for operating yourself#

I came across an interesting technique called a personal user manual: the idea is to write, either from a simple template or in free form, an operating manual for the object known as “Me.”

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.