WIP: move blog to hugo

content/_index.md

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+---
+menu:
+    main:
+        name: Home
+        weight: 1
+        params:
+            icon: home
+---

content/categories/example-category/_index.md

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+---
+title: Example Category
+description: A description of this category
+image:
+
+# Badge style
+style:
+    background: "#2a9d8f"
+    color: "#fff"
+---

content/page/about/index.md

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+---
+title: About
+slug: about
+menu:
+    main: 
+        weight: 5
+        params:
+            icon: person
+
+readingTime: false
+license: false
+---
+## About me
+Hi, I'm Radu, and this is my personal blog.
+
+I'm a Mechanical Engineer by training, and a Software Developer by (current)
+trade.
+
+This blog is a place where I document things I’ve built, explored, or
+learned — whether it’s through code, a side project, or just a good book or film.
+It’s part journal, part playground, and sometimes just a place to organize my
+thoughts.
+
+The quality, quantity and length of posts will 
+
+## Data Privacy Policy
+
+I don’t really expect this blog to get much traffic… or any, really. But since it’s a publicly accessible page—and given the limited resources I can allocate to it—I like to keep an eye on general activity.
+
+I don’t need in-depth tracking or detailed analytics, so commercial tracking solutions aren’t a good fit here.
+
+Instead, this site uses a self-hosted instance of [Umami](https://github.com/umami-software/umami) for basic analytics. All data is anonymized, stored locally, and never shared with third parties.

content/page/archives/index.md

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+---
+title: "Archives"
+date: 2022-03-06
+layout: "archives"
+slug: "archives"
+menu:
+    main:
+        weight: 2
+        params: 
+            icon: archives
+---

content/page/links/index.md

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+---
+title: Links
+links:
+  - title: GitHub
+    description: GitHub is the world's largest software development platform.
+    website: https://github.com
+    image: https://github.githubassets.com/images/modules/logos_page/GitHub-Mark.png
+  - title: TypeScript
+    description: TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
+    website: https://www.typescriptlang.org
+    image: ts-logo-128.jpg
+menu:
+    main: 
+        weight: 4
+        params:
+            icon: link
+
+draft: true
+comments: false
+---
+
+To use this feature, add `links` section to frontmatter.
+
+This page's frontmatter:
+
+```yaml
+links:
+  - title: GitHub
+    description: GitHub is the world's largest software development platform.
+    website: https://github.com
+    image: https://github.githubassets.com/images/modules/logos_page/GitHub-Mark.png
+  - title: TypeScript
+    description: TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
+    website: https://www.typescriptlang.org
+    image: ts-logo-128.jpg
+```
+
+`image` field accepts both local and external images.

content/page/search/index.md

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+---
+title: "Search"
+slug: "search"
+layout: "search"
+outputs:
+    - html
+    - json
+menu:
+    main:
+        weight: 3
+        params: 
+            icon: search
+---

content/post/2025-04-07-hello-friend/index.md

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+---
+title: Hello, Friend
+description: So I've decided to have a blog
+slug: hello-friend
+date: 2025-04-07 14:30:00+0200
+categories:
+    - Technology
+    - Projects
+tags:
+    - homelab
+    - self-hosting
+    - docker-compose
+weight: 1
+draft: false
+---
+
+## Introduction
+This is -- technically -- not my first time hosting a blog, but it *is* the first
+time this decade.
+
+First time I've tried hosting a blog was in 2009, the year I got my domain. The
+domain came with an introductory offer of free web-hosting for a year. So I
+figured out just enough MySql and FTP to yeet a WordPress installation on
+there, and make it run. As I remember it, I got as far as installing a custom
+theme I really liked, and writing at most three posts, all of them in the first
+month. Then the blog just stayed up until my hosting expired, without any
+further updates.
+
+Second time I tried a blog was a bit later, after I got into self-hosting. The
+internet archive says it's 2018 [[1]], so it must be true. That time I
+never ended up actually posting anything, since I was mainly just interested in
+deploying the site.
+
+Which brings me to the present, and the third time I'm trying to set up a
+blog. This time, the marginal cost of me setting a blog is insignificant, since
+I'm already self-hosting plenty of services for my own use. This does not mean
+that I'm going to be more active than before, but the blog will probably stay
+up for more than a few months.
+
+## Why a blog?
+
+
+
+- Accountability for projects, whatever they might be
+- Sense of finality for projects
+- Reference older stuff
+- It's about the journey, not the destination
+- Random stuff that's longer form than a mastodon post
+
+### Yes, but why a **blog**? 
+A blog feels right for grouping, filtering, organization, content size limit, etc...
+
+## How a blog
+Jekyll, Hugo, Ghost, and others.
+
+### Different concepts (CMS vs static websites)
+### Different static website generators
+#### Jekyll
+#### Hugo
+
+### Infrastructure
+#### Self hosting
+#### Git repository and CI
+
+## Rules... Nay, guidelines
+- I don't do projects to write a blog post about them, I write a blog post to document a project
+- No promise of future posts, that NEVER works out (I'll explain why that's the case in a future post)
+
+## What to expect, and how often can be expected
+No expectations whatsoever about frequency and/or quality of anything contained wihin this here page. 
+
+[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180810023635/http://martin.md/