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
Hey, it’s been a while. I’m still here. It just turns out that even though I do enjoy tending to this little corner of the internet which I’ve decided is mine, writing up a PhD really tires you out. Especially so in terms of wanting to write any text at all ever again.
Fri, 7 Mar 2025
With the increased commercialisation of universities in the UK, one of the things that the Computer Science (CS) department unfortunately lost access to, by command from “up on high”, was the providing of publicly accessible web hosting.
Mon, 11 Mar 2024
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