Hugo in OpenBSD in 2024

Am I playing with lukewarm fire by syncing my Hugo blog files across Linux and OpenBSD systems and attempting to publish from both?
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Terminal — the Hugo theme used by this blog — is no longer being maintained

I’ve enjoyed using Radosław Kozieł’s Hugo theme called Terminal, and I’m sorry to learn that it’s no longer being updated. I guess it’s time to look for a new theme.
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What’s the difference between blogging and a longer social post?

It’s so easy to just open an app window, write a few lines and hit send. I write hundreds of social posts for every “real” blog post.
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How hard is it to move a Hugo setup from one computer to another?

I’ve done a lot of operating system switching over the past many months and not a whole lot of blogging. My question: Does this thing still work?
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Dave Winer is too important to think he’s accomplishing nothing

I read Dave Winer’s Scripting.com blog every day. I subscribe via email. Like everything Dave does, it makes me think. Today I wonder if I should set up an email subscription service of some kind for this blog. Email is the new hotness in marketing. Email addresses are like gold. Dave recently wrote about how he feels he’s reaching nobody with his blog, especially as it pertains to the political issues of the day (e.
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Writing in git vs. blogging

Any of us who have been blogging over the past 10 or more years has written hundreds or maybe thousands of posts. I’m pretty sure I have at least a couple thousand. But blog writing and other writing are different. A blog tends to say “this is now, things below this are in the past, things above this will appear in the future.” It’s reverse-chronological. That’s not a horrible thing.
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WordPress and Disqus in 2019

WordPress is a vital resource that hasn’t taken undue advantage of its users like other free, hosted services have done. But right now, it’s not for me. The one thing I miss about blogging with a static-site generator is the lack of native comments. It’s the one thing self-hosted WordPress (aka WordPress.org) gets right. It’s probably because WP was “doing” comments before Twitter and Facebook came along. Back then, social was comments.
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First post in Hugo for 2019

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