Hugo on robyn.digital

On Learning New and Old Things: Ham Radio & Standard Chinese

hello [at] robyn.digital (robyn) — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:28:20 -0700

I shared this post on mastodon a couple days ago:¹

Screenshot of the linked mastodon post, showing a stack of three books. An ALT Text description is available within the mastodon post.

… which reminded me that I had not updated my Now page in a while, so I got to doing that. Once I realized that the Now post had reached the length of a grade five class paper, I moved the .md file over to the main blog posts folder. So: What you are currently reading started as a Now post, then became far too big for its britches, and now here we are.

Host Migration and Mastodon Verification (finally!)

hello [at] robyn.digital (robyn) — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:28:20 -0700

01. But Why?

You may have seen me post about how my old hosting provider - InfinityFree, which provides free hosting - was blocking mastodon verification requests. That is, by and large, not a huge deal, but it sure is annoying if you’re as into the fediverse as I am, and also trying to advance its usage and prominence in our digital society. But more on that below.

On top of that, site access speed as well as the speed with which I was able to push new FTP content wasn’t stellar (and no shade to the provider for that, it was a free service after all), and - in late 2025 - I was looking for a Canadian host more than ever. Putting my money where my mouth is and all that.

Creating my Site Theme from `XMin`

hello [at] robyn.digital (robyn) — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 08:43:00 -0600

Why my Own Theme?

When I settled on HUGO as the static generator for my first stab at a 2025-era small/indie web site, I was slowly but surely reminded of how no, you can’t in fact just build a HUGO site without a theme.

Whether or not that is the way to go (I would argue that it is not; see also Bruce Wray’s excellent article on Really getting started with Hugo), that’s where we are. I would prefer if a Hugo site worked without a theme - if it spit out barebones HTML, basically - and we could just slap on different themes to see what the site looks like with those applied. And then pick the one we like best.