Again in my series of blog posts about moving my site, I have updated the theme and migrated from Jekyll to Hugo. The theme looks better and has better mobile support too. Jekyll and Hugo are very similar in their features for static site generators. I needed to change how I publish to GitHub Pages to allow for more processing steps, so I decided to switch. Overall I’m hoping the change makes publishing easier, and leads to more frequent posting....
It seems I only update this blog when I change how I host it. I have now moved it to GitHub pages and CloudFlare. I now say “goodbye” to Webfaction who have served me well for many years. ...
I have finally taken the source code to this blog and stuck it up on GitHub. It doesn’t have much in the way of documentation yet, but feel free to poke around and see how I’ve implemented this blog. I’m more than happy to hear any feedback. In the coming months I plan to add more documentation, tests and to make it more resusable. So don’t wait any longer, go and check out the source!...
After a few months of running the new site I thought it’s time to get posting again. To start with I thought I’d explain what thinking went into deciding to rebuild it. Origins I started blogging back in July 2004. Originally I was using Google’s Blogger which worked well enough for a time. It was quick to setup and use. Eventually I decided it would be better to have my blog running under my own domain. So in August 2006 I moved it onto a self hosted install of Drupal. Despite taking a small step backwards in terms of design I now owned my content and could do anything I wanted with my blog. So after 6 years why the big change? ...
This is the first post using my new custom built blogging engine, and the first post I’ve made in over three years! Stay tuned for more updates and details on the new system and what changes to expect for the blog.