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As I have mentioned before, this blog is currently using a static site generator called Hugo. I was recently browsing a changelog for Hugo 0.155 when I came across this commit. This immediately raises alarm bells for me. LLM-generated code is demonstrably low-quality and poorly maintainable, no matter how politely you ask the LLM to write good, maintainable code. As I rely on Hugo to maintain my website, I obviously do not want it to become unmaintainable slopware. But I did not just want to assume the worst - this might just have slipped in by accident, or as part of one dev playing around with the technology for a bit out of curiosity. So I asked a question: ...

You might notice that this website looks a bit different now. There’s a reason for that: Thanks to the current ongoing drama around Wordpress.com, Automattic, and its competitors, I no longer felt confident in having my website hosted there, and frankly, I didn’t feel confident using a self-hosted Wordpress instance either. This post will give you a quick rundown of the changes, and then a somewhat longer ramble about the new tech stack, and my experience upgrading. ...