For many years this website ran on Django. It worked well, and at the time it made sense. I wanted to learn Django, run the application myself, and generally understand every part of the stack. Last year I moved the site to Hugo, hosted on GitHub Pages, with GitHub Actions handling the build and deployment. I had been wishing to move to a static site for ages, and Copilot made that much easier.

I started this website 20 years ago as a means to learn Django, which made sense, as at the time I wished to do everything myself: website and hosting, running my own mail server, dns server, and probably something else, too. Over time my desire to spend time on these activities dwindled, and I move my content to blogger. Year by year I wrote fewer articles, and then it became years since I wrote anything. Perhaps it was the UI for blogger or the niggling feeling that Google could kill it off at any time, or perhaps it was having a kid. Eventually the libraries were no longer maintained. This weekend I opted to: