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I write this site on whatever machine I happen to on when I think of something, and then Syncthing keeps the other machines in, er…, sync. For the build portion though, I mainly build this in Hugo and upload from my old, and battered Thinkpad E440. That box is running Linux Mint which has its own packaged Hugo, which is currently around version 0.65 (~February 2020). Certainly since I moved to Hugo, that’s been fine, but that version is quite old, so I thought I’d bring it up to date, which is roughly what my Windows desktop is running at v0.105 (October 2022). ...

Hello Hugo. Hello, and this time, if you’re reading this in November 2021 or thereabouts, you’re reading brightblack as generated by the Hugo static site generator. If you were reading for the near two years before this date, it was likely generated by Jekyll. Yes, I switched. For the reader, I hope this change will be transparent, though my URL redirect for anyone with old links might be a bit sketchy, and so apologies for any 404s. I don’t like it myself, but it is what it is. ...

As sort-of promised, I’ve started putting some of my old old content up from the 90s and 2000s in the Retro section with some context added in a With Hindsight part preceding them. Just a bit of whimsical retro lip-service and reminding myself just how much more time I used to have, and just how many things have gone by the wayside in nigh on two decades. Also updated my Currently Using page for a few minor changes over the last few months. ...

After a few years on the rather excellent Grav system, I’ve moved brightblack into the Jekyll static site generator. Why so? I like Grav, I really do, but I didn’t use or need most of the functionality, as this site is very simple in layout, it’s just me doing it. As an example, eventually I was putting things together in local text editors - which is more my workflow for most things - and pasting into the Grav editor. That’s not making the most of Grav, and points to a potentially faster method for me. ...