Building a Hugo Blog  [draft]

Apparently I didn’t take any notes when I originally converted my blog to hugo templating. This seems odd, so I probably just misplaced them. The blog content repo was created November 4th, 2018. Setup steps Initialize the submodule for your preferred theme. Here’s a couple: 1 2 git submodule add https://github.com/pravin/hugo-theme-prav themes/prav git submodule add https://github.com/budparr/gohugo-theme-ananke.git themes/ananke This will create a .gitmodules file at the root of your repo, and a linked project in the target directory....

February 1, 2020

Dealing With the Insurmountable Flood of Possibility

Inquiring minds yearn to know: “How do you manage to manage all those ideas and projects?” And I say to them: “Well, inquiring minds, yearn no further. The answers are thither. Or do I mean yon? I don’t think thither means what I think it means. Onward to me asking myself a pile of questions!” Identifying Problems or Bottlenecks or Interesting Technologies is What Keeps Me Going “Aren’t you busy enough?...

October 20, 2017

A Blogging Experiment Post-Mortem

Alt Title: How Not To Make a Ton of Money Blogging About Things That Matter to You Why Do I Write? I mostly write for selfish reasons. I started blogging because I thought passive income would be great, but then after a while I realized it’s probably the wrong niche, and I’d have to (be really annoying || prolific || write about popular things to generate clicks) to even be seen, and that’s not what I want to spend my resources on....

October 15, 2017

A Blogging Workflow  [draft]

Have a dumping ground for your ideas It’s important to have a dumping ground for ideas when you are on the go. This can be a notepad, google keep, an email to yourself, or whatever method you have for writing reminders. At first I tried adding drafts to my wordpress site. I found it too easy to forget about the topic this way, though, and did not like the lack of oranization tools....

October 15, 2017