I’ve been fighting against the theme I was using for this blog for a couple years now. It hadn’t been updated to work with newer versions of Hugo, which is the tool I use to convert my writings into a themed, usable website.

So a month ago I decided to create my own theme, after avoiding this rabbit-hole for years. I knew there’d be a multi-hour learning curve involved, but now felt like the right time.

Some benefits:

• I would know the CSS enough to optimize, and customize
• I’d better learn how Hugo works, which should give me a foundation for keeping the theme updated to work with newer versions of Hugo.

I still have more to do. The site isn’t as solid as I want it to be on mobile. Padding varies, and the preformatted code blocks are funky. I’ll fix that in time.

That’s all. Just wanted to mark the change, and explain what’s going on.