Sunday, October 26, 2025

I spent all morning toying with a few different static blogging options that could replace Hugo.

Kev had generously sent me a head start on a Jekyll theme that mimics my WordPress theme at baty.blog. I installed Jekyll and (to my surprise) I didn’t hit any Ruby walls. While it was a great head start, I realized how much work remained, and I’m still not sure I want to use Jekyll.

The worst thing about Hugo is the templating language. It’s so weird to me. Weird enough that it prevents me from tweaking things the way I like. For kicks, I installed Zola, which I haven’t played with in years. It’s like a sensible version of Hugo (single binary, etc.). I failed to port the theme Kev gave me to Zola, so I installed a pre-existing theme, Tabi. I kind of like it, but it’s not really what I’m looking for, and I don’t think I want to learn enough about Zola to make it happen.

So it’s 2:00 in the afternoon and I’ve got nothing but dead ends to show for my day. Still in Hugo for now. It’s a beautiful day, so I think I’ll go for a nice walk.

You know what site of mine works just the way I like it? daily.baty.net. I tend to forget that. The problem is usually that it’s (currently) built using Kirby CMS and I kind of don’t want to stay sharp with Kirby. Maybe I’ll just use it as is until something breaks. If nothing ever breaks, I’m golden.