Writing

I’ve been busy working on a documentation site for eugene, and I think it’s starting to look pretty good. I wanted to write down some of my thoughts around the process so far, and some of the things I’ve learned. It’s just been a few days since I ported my blog to hugo, so since I was already feeling like I was up to speed on that, I decided I’d try using it for the eugene documentation too. I experimented with a few different setups around the hugo-book theme, but it ended up feeling like I was having to configure a bit too much for my taste. I think it looked really nice, but the setup felt a bit janky and complicated, with having the submodules and everything in the eugene repo itself. I think my problem here is just that doing this with hugo would require me to learn more about hugo than I’m ready for right now. ...

I’ve been using pelican for my blog for a while now, and I don’t really have anything negative to say about it. But for a while, I’ve been wanting a more minimal theme. I ended up on the front page of hacker news a couple of times, and the old theme had my face on all the pages, which made me feel a bit uncomfortable. I was looking at some other themes around the web, and I found PaperMod which I absolutely loved. I followed instructions for how to set it up, and it turns out that it only took me an hour or two to get everything up and running. I guess I have to give credit to where credit is due, both Hugo and PaperMod are really well-made, and easy to use. There’s a lot more stuff that Hugo can do, but I think I have everything I need set up for now. ...