I was a twitter use for many years and you’ll find the archeological remains of my twitter use in the blog by the broken embedded tweets that remain. After Elon Musk took over twitter, I decided to leave and I closed down my first account. I still have an archive at cpjobling.github.io/cpjobling-tweets. I had a skeleton presence for some time, but that closed too a few months ago. Now, I’ve gone over to Bluesky (bsky.

🗓️ Today Copied from Obsidian. ✅ Did Hosted the Hugo-generated version of my blog on GitHub pages here: cpjobling.github.io/fresh_and_crispy and set up a repo here: cpjobling/fresh_and_crispy: Static website version of my blog (github.com) 📖 Reading My Hugo setup and how this blog works by [[Taylor Jadin]].

Introduction In August 2024, I decided that I would attempt to move my old Fresh and Crispy WordPress blog to a new static website using the Hugo tool. This is a record of the process that I followed. Installing Hugo I installed Hugo by following the instructions given on the Quick Start. This is the first page that I created using hugo new content/posts/my-first-post.md This is what the new blog site looks like after this first step

Hugo is a static web generator written in Go. I’m thinking of exporting this WordPress site to Hugo so that all the posts, pages and assets are text, easily version controlled and ready for writing as I transition from academia to private life. I’ll keep notes on the process and post them in the new Hugo site.

Yesterday, I received my copy of Martin Weller’s book 25 Years of Ed Tech. Inspired by Chapter 2 The Web (1995), I travelled back in time to my own first attempt to teach online. I visited the Way Back Machine (web.archive.org) to discover that the first official University website (www.swan.ac.uk) was archived on 11th December 1997. Navigating through that web site, I discovered that the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering website (which I built) was archived a few months earlier.