2025 Update and consolidation

My github blogs have proliferated over the years and many of my strategies were poorly thought out. Cleanup is in order after a few weeks of work with Hugo. The goal for the next week or so will be guided by the following strategy.

Blog post or README text?

  • Convert posts from various blog branches to this blog.

  • Code Project blogs I have several code projects with related blogs, this information needs to be divided between the project README and a related blog post. Configuration and API details of a component should be in the README, along with a link to longer explanation posts and use case posts. When explaining a problem to be solved, it should be in a blog post.

Updating my site with org-mode

I have updated blogging procedure

This is of a technical interest on how I actually produce my blog. I have always written by blog pages in emacs and historically have authored in Markdown syntax and the Beautiful Jekyll theme on GitHub. I now author my pages in org mode and use org-publish to render them to the Jekyll repository. Next I ensure that the blog posts are in the _posts/ folder and commit those changes to the git image of my site. Finally, I upload and push my local site to GitHub.

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