System Administration

Why This Script Exists Every time I write a new blog post, Hugo has to rebuild the entire site. That means recompiling all the markdown, regenerating all the HTML, copying files to the web root where nginx can serve them, and fixing Linux file permissions so nginx can actually read them. Doing all that manually is tedious. Running separate commands every time is error-prone. I wanted one command that does everything. ...

The Fuckup I wanted to migrate from Hugo to WordPress. Seemed simple. It wasn’t. I spent hours trying to install WordPress on my T620 thin client. Each time I “fixed” it, something else broke. By the end, both WordPress AND my Hugo site were completely fucked. Nginx wouldn’t start. The main blog was down. I had wasted hours on something that should have taken 30 minutes. Then I remembered: I had full backups. ...