Blogging With Hugo

Before this post, my blog was a self hosted Ghost installation. I hardly update the installation, it’s been at its 0.11.x install for quite a while. It’s not quite straightforward it seems to update to the latest Ghost version. I didn’t want to use MySQL as it’s not needed for my scale, couldn’t get it to work with sqlite3 unfortunately. So I went shopping and immediately liked Hugo. Pre Migration Going to talk more about what led me to Hugo. It started with Pico but was immediately discouraged because the website is not served throught HTTPS and although I have nothing against PHP, it’s still PHP. Dug deeper about static file blogging platforms, wanted a Python alternative to find that it’s not great, it’s too bland for my taste and most importantly it looks old (sorry..). ...

January 11, 2021 · Batista Harahap

Mobile Blogging

This is my premier mobile blogging post. I must say I didn’t expect Wordpress to create its own Blackberry application. I was quite disgusted with Wordpress’ email-to-post feature. Just didn’t seem mobile enough lol. With the enormous growth of Blackberry users in the world (particularly in Indonesia), I guess Wordpress doesn’t mind a bit of Java coding to grab a piece of the pie. Anyways, I haven’t dissect the application thoroughly. My first glimpse while I was composing this post was its lack of a rich text editor. To be honest, since Blackberries use scrolls as it interface, a rich text editor might be a little bit annoying. Keyboard shortcuts will be great though :) ...

December 28, 2009 · Batista Harahap