Recently I added some command line aliases to more quickly add new posts to Hugo, the static site generator that powers this blog. So for example I can type hnp New Post and it will run hugo new --kind post-bundle posts/2021-06-19-new-post. Then using Hugo’s archetypes it will create a new blog post in the format I like, with the date prefixing the folder name. I used a bash function instead of a true alias to allow me to write out the titles in plain english.

Over the past few months I’ve been trying to transform this website from a resume/portfolio into a cheaper, and more easy to update (and more fun to use) blog. To do so I created a workflow to post blog entries from my iPad and iPhone.