Just finished moving ye old blog from Octopress to Hugo under the premise that I’d write and publish a little more if I could use a tool that is is a little more modern.¹ You know, more modern than a vintage 2012 Ruby.

I took a look at other options before I took the leap—Nikola and a couple other Python-based systems looked promising. I started hacking around with Nikola before deciding it didn’t feel quite right.

Hugo has been a joy to use so far. I don’t know if it’s just that I’ve got an extra six years of programming under my belt, but the system seems to be more intuitive than I remember Octopress/Jekyll being. It’s got great documentation and forums to boot. I was able to convert my entire blog over, including manually editing some blog posts and hacking away at a new design/layout over the course of a weekend. I even managed to make it segfault!

I’m pretty jazzed that Hugo can publish Jupyter Notebooks. It also seems like a good way forward for hosting a microblog and moving away from Twitter a little.

Thanks to Lingyi Hu for developing the Er theme that I hacked at to make this update. There are still a few things to clean up, but overall I’m happy with the fresh look.