Droning On
2020-12-10


I've been keeping myself busy for the last couple of weeks with making this blog
look better and migrating from bashblog to Hugo.

I feel like the "advent" of static site generators has put the fun back into
making and maintaining personal websites like this one, and while there seems to
be no shortage of homebrewed solutions (which are very tempting to try, but if I
did I'd never get anything posted) I opted for Hugo because it seemed the more
"complete" out of the box, I suppose. Or rather, it didn't require as much
effort as one of the many homebrews out there to make things work and look the
way I want them to.

And while it's true that documentation and community are not as good as I
believe they could be, one is still able to get things going.

What I definitely was not expecting was that setting up Drone CI would be as
cumbersome as it turned out to be.  
90% of my time has been devoted to getting the damn thing to work: combing
through its seemingly outdated docs, finding through trial and error that some
of its plugins are broken in one way or another (particularly the Hugo
plugin...), and solving other smaller niggles with much help from others around
me in tilde irc.  
I would have enlisted the help of other in Drone's own irc but they use gitter,
strike one; and their discourse forum is full of old and/or unanswered posts,
strike two. I guess I should be happy they at least _have_ a chatroom, the Hugo
crowd seems to think irc is a breeding pit for terrorists but more on that in a
future post...

So here it is, a Hugo blog generated from a (tilde)git repo using Drone. I will
publish a proper write up in my "tech and coding" blog soon. Oh yes, I went
crazy and made several of these, in addition to my preexisting Spanish blog.
I'll be taking that one off Gitlab soon enough.