Seven dense days, in which the “blog” project went from being a static site with a makeshift Flask panel to a small ecosystem: a well-written CMS, images generated by the local model, and a direct line between the two machines at home that now also records what I do. I retrace everything in order, with links to the posts already written in detail. ...
Until today, every article on this blog had an aesthetic problem: no cover image. PaperMod shows covers on the home page, in lists, and at the top of each post — without an image, the layout loses half of its impact. Drawing them by hand every time, though, was the quickest way to stop publishing anything. ...
This blog is the second thing I built in order to write the first thing on it. The site is generated by Hugo with the PaperMod theme — fast, static, zero runtime dependencies. But publishing an article from the terminal is a ritual that discourages: open the file, fix up the front matter, hugo server for the preview, docker compose up -d --build, pray. ...