I’ve spent a bunch of time trying to figure out how to get a solid web editor interface implemented for Hugo but have largely been unsucceessful. As a result of that and the tweaking and moving and styling I’ve been messing around with, the majority of my posts have been about the tech stack used for this blog. I knew there would be some posts around this as I got everything figured out but that was not really the intent behind this blog.

Trying out GitJournal for Android. It was easy to get it hooked up to my repo in my self hosted Gitea instance. The editor is pretty basic but supports markdown and has previewing. Not sure if the front matter will work. It is rendering in the preview but I guessing when I build it on the server it will be fine. Also allows image uploading so hopefully that will work.

# Current state I’ve got Hugo up and running nicely. I’m getting down how the flow of everything works with it and what the built-in features are. I’m pretty happy with how it looks and I really like the fact that it is a static site with very little configuration. I have the whole thing under source control on an instance of Gitea on my VPS. It is mirrored to my personal Github account for redundancy.

After a lot of working with Eleventy for a while I decided to jump ship and move to Hugo. The main reason behind the decision was the ease of Hugo themes. Eleventy has a ton of customization but I just don’t have the time to put into it. I found a really nice and simple theme Anubis2 for Hugo that I’m really liking. I might try to update the colors to follow the Catppuccin palette.

# kill-the-newsletter I gave in and just created kill-the-newsletter RSS feeds on the official service for the few newletters I have that aren’t RSS-able. The cost of increasing my vps size was more than I was able to justify for just a few RSS feeds. Since setting it up it’s been working great and I have no complaints. As long as they keep it up and running, I should be good.

I was updating apps today on my phone and noticed this release version number on the Google Play Books app. So I checked out apkmirror and sure enough it’s been the same message since June of 2023. How little do you have to care about your products and users to not even take the time to tell the user what is changing? It would take all of 5 minutes to update with something relevant.

Just realized a major drawback with self-hosted WriteFreely; the inability to upload images. Clearly if it took me this long to notice, I don’t often have posts with images. Still this is unfortunate. My syncing sources from here then goes out to micro.digitallyadrift.com hosted on micro.blog. The out to the fediverse. I checked the WriteFreely site and it looks like they’ve had it as a “wishlist” feature multiple years. The ticket is still unassigned so I’m not optimistic it will get added any time soon.

I’m on to figuring out the last piece of my self- hosted RSS to read later setup. I need to get a solution in place for handling email newsletters. Kill-the-newsletter is what I’m going to try. It gives you unique email addresses that it converts into RSS feeds. They have their own managed option but I want to go fully self-hosted if possible. Unfortunately Yunohost doesn’t have kill-the-newsletter as an easy install option.

Just picked up two new books from the library last night and moved them over to my Currently Reading section for 2025. Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets by Jeff Horwitz and One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig Read the first chapter of each and they both did a good job pulling me in so far. I’ll be interested to see which one gets more of my attention and finishes first.

I feel like this time of year is always a bit of a struggle. After the holidays and all the visiting and eating and events, it feels like all that’s left is an empty quiet. I feel like there’s usually a slow down in news (I mostly follow tech news and this is a down time outside of CES, usually) but this year nothing I follow has been untouched by the current political climate.