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

Spontaneous Writing Episode II

The second episode of Spontaneous Writing is now in session continuing from this previous session. For tonight, my iTunes is happily playing songs by Tohpati in his rather old solo album. By the way, from what I’ve been trying to do the past few weeks, it seems that only when I got home will then writing moments will be abundant for my fingers. Can’t seem to do this while at the office. ...

February 4, 2011 · Batista Harahap