This blog has been running Jekyll since 2014. It served me well for years, but the theme was showing its age, the tooling felt stuck, and I wanted something faster and more modern. So I migrated to Hugo. One theme per decade I guess.
Why Hugo
Jekyll was fine when GitHub Pages built it for you automatically. But the ecosystem has moved on. Hugo builds in milliseconds, has a richer template system, and the theme ecosystem is significantly better. PaperMod in particular gives me dark mode, search, reading time, and a table of contents out of the box.
A semi-important thing was to keep permalinks working, so I had to adapt the Jekyll pattern /blog/:year/:month/:day/:title to Hugo’s permalink config, and it was quite simple.
Future of this space
I feel the need to write more, because I do enjoy remembering some old things I’ve done. The issue with having a bunch of interests is that I also don’t spend as much time going deep in everything (natural consequence…), so I do enjoy re-discovering some of my old tinkering.
I’ll talk about AI, whether it’s from a leadership or engineering perspective. I believe the world is rapidly evolving, and having spent the last decade in healthcare, I am eager to see this thing change the world in a positive way.