Notes, Blogs and Publishing

I use written notes to sketch out topics during concentrated design consideration or when away from my computer.

I use an org blog to store research information and thoughts about short-term tasks. I do not review these items for communications as these are notes to myself and debugging logs.

My tomrake.github.io was largely conceived to express the technical programming and coding problems encountered while working. The blog is for public consumption but, I have not historically reviewed the writing.

tomrake.github.io was started with a clone of Beautiful Jekyll but updating that system became difficult, I then started researching other static site generators and decided to move to Hugo. tomrake.github.io was not updated for several years.

During 2024, I began adding blog and documentation pages to my project which were done in hugo. I did a deep dive on Hugo and Hugo themes. The week of April 13, 2025, "pulled the trigger" to update the tomrake.github.io and wrote this entry.

Github actions could be used for nefarious purposes to avoid compromise all action dependencies need to be evaluated. I rely on step-security to evaluate the action dependencies I use for this site. The tomrake.github.io has problems updating the beautiful-jekyll infrastructure.

The test-blog repo is a working proof of the hugo-blog concept and a prototype for tomrake.github.io.