I'm making good progress on my website! I'm using Hugo with Kayal right now. May try to have a crack at making my own Hugo theme in the future.

Now I wanna know, what's the best place to host a static site made with Hugo? I've looked at GitHub Pages, Neocities and Nekoweb. Maybe a DigitalOcean VPS if I ever want to mess with other things beyond static sites but not at the moment.

It needs to at least be accessible via my domain.

Periodic update:
- graduated from my studio engineering program
- minor medical things
- more background on the song we released CC-BY-SA this week

https://venya.soundslike.pro/blog/2025/03/six-months/

I’m a wordy bastard. I really struggle with 500 characters. I’d struggle with 500 words sometimes. It's been hard to find a flow here (despite Mona's fantastic thread generator.)

I’m creating a #blog to house longer writings and share thoughts here without requiring anyone to visit platforms so many gathered here to avoid.

I'm using #Hugo instead of my usual #WordPress and dipping my toes into #Go and #TailwindCSS. I've only created the local structures, but so far, I dig it! It's #FOSS too!

I'm looking at these two Hugo themes for my site:
https://derme.coffee/triple-hyde/
https://mnjm.github.io/kayal/

I'm indecisive rn so, I'm gonna get feedback from people here.

A couple of years back I wrote a blog post about linking my static blog posts to Mastodon threads so that the threads can serve as blog comments.

I realise I never pinned that post to my profile, and I have since deleted the Mastodon thread, so I'm sharing it again. I'm pinning it this time!

https://berglyd.net/blog/2023/03/mastodon-comments/

I spent a lot of the day hacking away and making good progress on that #hugo blog I was struggling with last night.

It is odd that the official docs have you start by installing a theme when the majority of the themes on their official repository are outdated for the current structures and schema.

It would be better if they walked you through the basics of getting a "hello world" out there so you knew _how_ it worked, but I got there eventually.

Now to fix the json feed tomorrow.

Yesterday we have an argument with my spouse about our wedding site.

When I first thought about creating a wedding site, I had plans to make it super reusable, open source, and available for everyone.
I spent a lot time (with one of my best friend) planning the API schema, make it a pretty, customisable site, with admin view, with multiple "built-in" oauth/oidc provider login, and easy for use to non-technical people.

But I realised, I have to spin up a site before Christmas (that was maybe in the middle of December). So of course, I panicked. And did nothing. Maybe in my first day off before Christmas I found a cute GitHub page, where somebody did a lot of what I wanted. So I cloned the repo, and started to refactor it to our case.

Finally we had a #Hugo frontend.
And we agreed with my spouse, that it's enough for us, it's usable, etc.

Okay. The site was out, the guests got a message: Yo, this is an official unofficial invite (official - we actually want you there, unofficial - not the paper one :D), please check it, there will be all of the necessary information. Also currently RSVP is unavailable, so just wait for us.

After January, we got words from the location, so I could update the site.

And yesterday, I thought, it's time to create an RSVP form.

And here came the argument. Because back when I planned the site, I thought the RSVP form will be a HTML form, and the data stored in a database, etc...

After switching to Hugo I wanted to make the site backendless so we talked with my spouse to create Google Forms.

So I started to create one. And I hated it. It was so inconvenient for me, I couldn't create dynamic loops, etc...

So I quickly created a PoC HTML form on the site (without any styling, CSS, so it was really ugly), and asked my girlfriend what she thinks about it.

Of course she hated it. It's ugly, it's lame, it's not like Google Forms.
She told me, that she don't want to use something different, because people (she knows) only uses Google Forms, and she doesn't want to be different.

I said, I WANT TO BE DIFFERENT. I always want to be different than other people, because I don't want to be one of the many/crowd.
In middle school I always hated to be the different guy. Who has no friends, who does nerdy things, who knows tech, etc...
But when I went to uni, I met a lot of "different" people (yeah, IT people ARE different), and they loved me, my difference and they accepted me.
And of course she accepts my difference, and she loves me for it.

After a half+ hour argument, she agreed, that I could create a PoC and if isn't ugly, we could keep it.

Obviously, I spent more time to make the form, than I could click a form in Google Forms, but in the end, I think I made a pretty, KISS, dynamic and responsive form.

What do you think?
(Sorry it's only in Hungarian)

Your web server having an interactive shell (REPL) where you can live update entries in your site/app’s database is pretty neat (if I do say so myself) :)

https://kitten.small-web.org/reference/#kitten-s-interactive-shell-repl

(I’m porting the Small Technology Foundation site¹ from Site.js² – and hence from being a static site generated via Site.js’s integrated Hugo³ – to Kitten⁴. In the process, I’m creating an admin panel⁵ for the news, events, and videos sections, which will make them easier to update, and storing the data in Kitten’s internal JavaScript Database⁶.)

¹ https://small-tech.org
² https://sitejs.org
³ https://gohugo.io/
⁴ https://kitten.small-web.org
⁵ It’s trivial to create authenticated routes in Kitten. You just add a lock emoji () to the end of your route’s name. e.g., admin.page.js or /admin/index.page.js (see https://kitten.small-web.org/reference/#sessions-and-authentication).
⁶ https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb

To add context here, you would get to work with me on this. You have been warned.
https://unix.family/@farrokhi/113878469978019043

Well, I am changing my name, so a
new #introduction seems apt...

I'm Raven!

#nurse
#photography is cool,
#Linux nerd
#trans, #polyamory
heckin #bi,
#vegan,
#leftist,
star stuff (hail #carlsagan )

I'm #pdx based!

Starting the process of moving away from #meta owned platforms is going to be hard, and IDK how to get other folks on here, but I love this space more than Bluesky or anything else really.

I like using #Signal for comms and stories, so I guess that part is figured out.

Other interests I have...

#sewing
#rockclimbing
#webdesign (check out my #hugo theme: https://betterwebsites.dev)
#carfree inspired by @notjustbikes
#jiujitsu
#union activism

If any of that resonates with you, feel free to reach out!

My blog is: https://ravenwinters.org