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When I started writing my blog I realized that I wanted to add comments. I considered using something like Disqus but was concerned by the number of ads I have heard they serve when you aren’t using an ad-blocker. I use an ad-blocker so I hadn’t seen that directly (at least not in recent memory) but given the choice I’d rather limit the intrusiveness of ads. With that in mind I looked for self-hosted comment systems to see what options there were. ...

A bit over a week ago my friend Sam restarted his blog with a post about How [he] built this site. I’d been planning to write my own version of that post in the future, however I decided to do so sooner since our approaches have noticeable differences. I’m using Hugo as a static site generator for the content so that rebuilding the blog is as easy as deleting the public/ folder then recreating it using the hugo command. I’m not going to go into the full details of my blogging workflow at this time beyond saying I write the posts in Emacs Org-Mode and use ox-hugo to generate the appropriate markdown files for the posts themselves. My Techdocs site uses the exact same process just with a different theme that is better designed to handle documentation. ...