A Blog

The astute may have noticed, this blog is on Hugo and PaperMod. A common choice. A sensible choice. A Just Works choice. It wasn’t hard. So why hasn’t this one before? Because, just like My Homelab. Hugo has been pretty nice to use actually. Same for PaperMod. It looks nice, it Just Works, and it gets this one started. But there are many theme options to choose from, and the choice between Zola and Hugo. Writing this is making it look at Zola themes and fuck they’re looking pretty nice and making it want to switch. Maybe. Now that something exists to fall back to. It probably would have been fine just deciding to use Zola and- see this is the trap, and what? PaperMod, in this one’s mind, is the classic default-choice hugo theme that It ended up falling back on, but what is Zola’s and does It even like it? ...

I’ve been trying to “set up a homelab” for years. For me this really means, well, anything self hosted. Jellyfin, Nextcloud, Immich, a Bluesky PDS, so much as a static site for this blog post which is being written before any site exists, and will be hosted by the “homelab” this post will go on to create. I dont know if its me, other people, guides, but I’ve always struggled here. There are lots of guides and “steps”, but very little rationale, explanation, justification, “why this way and not that way”; I’ve always needed to know the rationale, the low-level details, how and why it works, and most of all: How and why its secure and private. I do not want my devices hacked, my data stolen, and so on, so I need what is sorely missing from most guides: The understanding of what i’m doing to be confident it is secure. ...