Moving to Hugo

Another summer, another excuse to tinker with my website. I’ve used pelican, a python static site generator, to run this website for nearly six years. It’s a great tool. But I dislike python dependency hell, and pelican is a bit slow. So I’ve looked elsewhere. Hugo is blazing fast, has a thriving community, decent templates, and a downloadable binary that you can get via homebrew. No more dependency management! Also important for me (as an emacs user), there is a great org-mode exporter—ox-hugo—that lets me easily generate the web content from an org-file. On the whole I’ve been very happy with the move. ...

July 19, 2018 · 1 min · Colin McLear

New Site Design

I’ve updated the website with (what I hope is) a cleaner look and a bit better navigation. Thanks go to DandyDev for developing a great bootstrap theme for Pelican. I’ll be continuing to tweak here and there so apologies if you find broken links or other infelicities.

July 13, 2015 · 1 min · Colin McLear