I’ve been blogging since 2004, and I have over 2500 posts published on my blog. Unfortunately, that site has become unreliable, and I can’t work out what’s wrong with WordPress. For now, the site is still online, except for the few minutes each day that it spikes my CPU quota to 100%.
A new blog
I already moved my homepage away from the blog, with a nice, simple, static HTML and CSS website, and a Github Action to push it to my web host. Whilst one of my friends teased me for hand-writing code, it’s noticable how fast it is. So I decided to have a go with another simple site. No more SQL databases, over-complicated plugins — just back to basics, using Hugo.
Hugo has been around for a few years now, so there’s probably something else I should be using but I like the idea of writing posts in Markdown (I love working in Markdown, and have started to use it more in my day job…).
I have to admit that getting up and running with Hugo has been a bit more complicated than I hoped, but that’s the technology we’re running on for now, and I can start to publish my thoughts again.
To dos
There are a couple of things I still need to do before I can launch:
- I know a few people subscribe to the old blog, so I need to get RSS up and running, and ideally maintain the URI for the feed.
- I would like to bring some, if not all, of the old content across.
Credits
Before I sign off this first post on the new platform, Flavio Copes’ 2020 post on How to Create Your First Hugo Blog: a Practical Guide has been a huge help in getting started. I’ve also been Googling like crazy and finding lots of advice in the Hugo Documentation and Hugo Discourse.