This poor website. It has been through a lot, and it is barely a few months old.

I want to write and share my work. I also want control of my work. I don’t want to have to rely on the kindness of large platforms to host my content. I don’t really see that ending well.

So, I sit down, spin up a Hugo site, and then have to find a theme¹. Therein, dear reader, lies the rub. There is no theme that really offers what I want. I could write my own, but I am looking for simplicity here. I don’t want to manage a full theme.

My desired workflow:

1. Think of something cool to write.
2. Write the thing in markdown.
3. Save to my blog folder.
4. Run hugo.
5. Upload the new entry.

Done in 5 steps (4 if I set up tooling hugo).

Of course, I also want RSS and a decent mobile experience. I have to add a landing page to inform readers that some of the posts here include adult content.

So, I download a theme as a starting point, and I customize. I get lost in the details. I nitpick over everything. I keeping customizing more and more.

And I don’t write a fucking thing.

So, fuck it. I am using Bear Cub with just the slightest of changes. I dropped the tag list from indexes (kind of jumble visually) and made a minor correction to the RSS to use the post Description, if it was available.

Now, my goal is to let it be. No major updates to the site config in December. Let’s just focus on the writing.