When I originally set up this website during the COVID-19 pandemic, I decided to use the “Academic” theme from Hugo Blox (or Wowchemy Hugo Academic, as it was known back then). It was a tiny bit of a pain to get self-hosted, rather than through their solutions via Netlify, but it was manageable and I loved the colour themes, the multi-language support (because I vastly overestimated my amount of free time), and that the themes were both desktop- and mobile-friendly. However, a consistent pattern with Hugo Blox – other constantly changing the org’s name, don’t know what’s up with that – has been that updating the theme to its latest version is a chore.
Thu, 8 May 2025
I still like the idea of Digital Gardens which, since I posted the plan to make this website one, I have discovered are an entire sub-culture of websites. And as I’ve read more about these, what they are, and what the philosophy behind them are — slow, imperfect, small changes, which accumulate into something nice over time — I’ve also realised/decided that changing my website to try this different approach to online content will require taking the “gardening” approach to the switch itself. Small, gradual changes; otherwise I’ll never get it done. (It takes time to rebuild a website, who knew? ^^)
Fri, 12 Jan 2024