Moving to Hugo?
I came this close to moving my blog at baty.net back to Hugo. Even worse, I considered archiving all the content and starting fresh. I mean, completely fresh. No more dragging around years of images and posts that have been converted to and from several Markdown formats for various
Blog Questions Challenge (2025)
I was tagged by Kev Quirk to complete a "Blog Questions Challenge", so here we go. The questions are: 1. Why did you start blogging in the first place? 2. What platform are you using to manage your blog and why did you choose it? 3. Have you
Handling Kirby content vs code
One of the things that frustrated me about Kirby last year was handling code/template changes vs content changes. I complained about it here. Ideally, since Kirby is a PHP CMS, I would do everything directly on the server. What I've done more often instead, is to run
Floating images in Ghost
There is no built-in method in Ghost for floating an image and having text flow around it. It's a significant omission, and one which they say is "too hard" and have no plans to change. OK fine, I'll do it myself. I found a
Eleventy
You may have noticed that I've changed blogging tools again. After being mad at Hugo for a few days, I dusted off the old version I'd built using Eleventy. As fast, flexible, and powerful Hugo is, I cannot seem to get along with its templating system.