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+title: "Welcome"
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-
 Hello friend.
+
+### About This Site
+
+This site shares a bit of informal documentation and more blog-based recod
+keeping. Providing commentary on design decisions should be just as useful as
+some of the technical documentation however included in my repositories.
+
+### Setup
+
+| Environment | Development | Production |
+--- | --- | ---
+| Operating System | Fedora 33 | CentOS 8 |
+
+### About Me
+
+I do mixed signal circuit design and a bit of software development as a hobby.

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-title: "A first"
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+title: "Setting up a new site."
+date: 2021-08-24T10:24:27+02:00
+draft: false
+toc: false
+images:
+tags:
+  - website
+  - setup
+  - hugo
+---
+
+Previously I tried using grav with the intention to serve a simple website as
+it is quite easy to setup and the interface seemed quite nice. However the
+editing environment didn't feel good and after googling around a bit hugo
+already seemed alot more appealing. It renders from markdown with some html/css
+config files and can serve content statically or dynamically without superfluous
+features.
+
+So far it looks like I will stick with hugo and in any case a markdown source is
+highly portable.
+
+## Building Hugo
+
+Hugo is actually provided by ubuntu and centos repositories but building from
+source is equally trivial. I went a head a built hugo from the main repository
+using: `go version go1.15.14 linux/amd64` and placed the binary in
+`/usr/local/bin`.
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo.git
+cd hugo
+go install
+```
+I started off with the hermit theme and initialized a repository for this site
+and the theme to track changes separately. I will probably adjust the color and
+type-setting to some extent. Then eventually adjusting the actual layouts and
+templates as we go.
+
+## Git filter
+
+Currently I setup two branches: `master` which is deployed statically on
+leene.dev, and `dev` which is just for local development as I try out different
+things. I setup a clean-smudge git filter to manage deployment on a site-basis:
+
+```toml
+[filter "hostmgmt"]
+        smudge = sed 's@\\$HOSTNAME\\$@http://localhost@'
+        clean  = sed 's@http://localhost@\\$HOSTNAME\\$@'
+```
+
+But looking closer at the hugo documentation, it would be better to prepare a
+similar development and production configuration. We'll see if this can evaluate
+system environment variables.
+
+## Planned features and content
+
+I usually document most of my system administration work so that will be a large
+part of the content here but I am planning to include some technical and
+non-technical topics how I see fit.
+
+First I want to setup a clean flow of generating and serving svg content for
+well formatted illustrations. Ideally the source code is contained in the
+markdown and evaluated by hugo calling some external processing components but
+we will see how that works. I will make some milestones as part of the
+repository.
+
+Secondly I want to try a few style changes for the hermit template. Most of it
+is pretty good but there are a few things that I'd rather customise such as the
+main page and the footer.