Restart of blog

Well, I’ve finally made the shift to my new statically generated blog and am slowly migrating the content over. This operation is probably going to take me quite some time since I will need to go all the way back to 2009 and decide what posts and content I want to come across. There is possibly over a hundred posts (or more) to bring across! I’ll also be quite keen on bringing over some of my more useful resources (although they may need a huge revamp/ update) such as my Ultimate Resources Training Page and others.

I confess I am still struggling to get up to speed with Hugo (the tool I use for static generation) and find certain missing features mildly frustrating (mainly because I do not know yet how to implement them), however, I am sure over time I can build out my blog to a level of functionality of what it was. On the positive, all my posts are now generated from my preferred language of choice (markdown) and more importantly I am no longer at the mercy of Wordpress.com and their insane pricing.

I’m still playing around with Hugo Themes but have settled on a basic minimalistic theme that I think works well - but I still want to add a few more graphics to provide a bit more visual sugar to my readers than my chosen theme provides. Still investigating this!

In my last post I alluded to the fact that I was moving away from my well-established domain name of http://tenbulls.co.uk and had let that domain name lapse to the point it was virtually on the point of deletion. After lots of reflection and a realisation that this domain name is referenced in at least four possibly five books that I have been a technical editor or reviewer for, I decided that this was perhaps a very bad idea in the grand scheme of things. The domain renewal fees are trivial, and it was just the domain mapping/ Wordpress Premium that had really been costing the Lion’s share of the costs. It was touch and go for a while whether I could get it back, but after paying a rather large one-off fee to transfer the domain back into my name we were back in business.

I’m looking forwards to getting back to blogging and sharing my technical insights where I can (or at least documenting technical reminders for myself).

Wish me luck.