While working on my blog I discovered that some of the image and link sources in different posts had become broken without me noticing. Outside of “hugo says OK” I don’t have any other validation running on my blog so I decided to look for something that could lint the rendered output for dead links and other issues.

I tried a number of different tools but ended up using htmltest. It runs after hugo renders the static output of my blog in a public/ directory in the project root.

Last year I started making a more deliberate effort to make digital memories of everyday life in the form of audio recordings, photos, and video. While I’ve long been a fan of taking a camera with me on trips, the months-long absences of any photos in my Lightroom library made me realize how much every day life I was neglecting to record.

As a byproduct of this new habit I’ve ended up with a bunch of material documenting in greater detail the electronics and musics side projects that have occupied more and more of my time since 2019. Initially I had hoped that some of this material would make its way to the world in the form of short blog entries but I let self confidence and procrastination get the better of me. In the end I only released a single YouTube video in 2019, a noodle recorded on my DIY-assembled Eurorack synthesizer.

This weekend I took the opportunity of some downtime and the fact that I’ve deployed a new primary VPS (with the wonderful iocoop) to migrate my blog source to use hugo, leaving behind the Octopress setup I’ve had for a while.

Why? Well I’ve been on a small Go kick recently at $DAYJOB and elsewhere and having played with some of the other utilities developed by spf13 such as cobra and admiring their ergonomics and simplicity I was keen to give hugo a try.