New Beginnings

You ever been laying in bed at night and suddenly think, “Ugh! Where is my birth certificate?” Like you know when you look, you’ll probably find it where think it is, but it’s enough to tickle your anxiety from time to time. That’s how I feel about Wordpress. The thought of migrating, recovering, or restoring my data; it just brings on an occasional blast of dread.

PHP. Databases. Security Vulnerabilities. Patches. Themes. These things have never sparked joy. I’m done with paying a third party to manage all this for me and cut ties with it completely.

Over the last month I’ve been tweaking a Hugo theme to generate a static site using Markdown documents as the source of content. So here’s the fruits of that labor, the migration is mostly over. Some posts are being tweaked and updated still, but I’m thrilled to have this project coming to a close. It also gets me one step closer to using Markdown as the lingua franca for the majority of my documents.

So, in honor of the first day of spring and new beginnings, I’m debuting the rewrite.