You may have noticed a pretty dramatic appearance change to this site. I made leap from the wonderful Hugo Apero theme over to the Book theme. The former is well suited to academics with insight to share. The latter is oriented towards documentation. Why the change? # As I reflected on what was actually making it to my site, I realized the bulk of the content was really just a bunch of rough notes. ...
One of the most common pieces of advice I see from other bloggers is that building an email mailing list is critical to sustaining audience engagement. When I looked around, I didn’t find much guidance on how to implement a mailing list solution within a Hugo static site. Most of the guidance out there focuses on Wordpress. After some trial and error, I figured out how to get a third party mailing list service to work with this site. ...
This site has a domain registered with Google Domains and is deployed on Netlify. There’s a lot that I like about that arrangement. I’ve had a very good experience registering domains with Google Domains. And I’m a big fan of the whole Netlify continuous deployment model once it’s all set up. One thing that I didn’t want to do was use Netlify’s DNS, mainly because doing so would mean missing out on some Google Domain functionality, including Google’s mail forwarding and its included Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) implementation. ...
I like the idea of engaging with visitors here. It’s a reliable way to gather feedback and it really bring a static post to life. The most common and streamlined way to do so is with an on-page commenting system. And so began my quest to implement a commenting system on this site. Begone, Disqus # There are a whole bunch of commenting systems out there. One of the most popular is Disqus. ...
The why and how of migrating from the Hugo Academic theme over to the much lighter Hugo Apero theme.