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• Migrating to Hugo

  Apr 14, 2026 - 2 min read

  The entirety of (the remainder of) this post was written by Claude Sonnet. –CB

  If you look back at my Site Architecture post from a decade ago, you’ll see I already went through the static site generator evaluation process once. That led me to Hexo, which served me well for a long time. But Hexo has aged, and so I’ve migrated to Hugo.

• New Look

  Jan 17, 2019 - 1 min read

  Part of the reason I’m leaving Facebook is to spend more time on thoughtful content here on my site. I was never completely happy with the old theme but I left it in place for quite awhile. Recently I found Hueman and quite like its simplicity and performance. I’ve had to edit a few posts here and there and create a “logo” for the header but overall I’m pleased.

  I will be evolving the site logo and logotype as part of my focus on the site so I’m hoping to improve it greatly.

• Conversations

  May 2, 2018 - 1 min read

  I recently came across this collection of drawings by Julia Evans.

• Introspection

  Dec 15, 2016 - 1 min read

  I’ve been thinking a lot about how to preserve some of my thoughts publicly and what form this site should take. My misadventures with WordPress on the now-defunct breddy.net left me with a bad taste in my mouth for PHP frameworks and I remain skeptical of publish-platform-as-a-service offerings like Medium, Tumblr and Facebook. Twitter is too limiting for reasonable discourse.

• Site Architecture

  May 22, 2016 - 2 min read

  The way it works is I have a bunch of Markdown that gets processed by Hexo and synced to an S3 bucket. This is a process that was ostensibly made mainstream by Jekyll but is now supported by a lot of different tools in the same genre.

• Back From the Dead

  May 22, 2016 - 1 min read

  After what was probably the third or fourth battle with hacked WordPress installs, someone finally completely sunk breddy.net. I’m changing strategy and using static files in AWS.