Week 7: Migrating to Hugo and playing guitar

Migrating this blog from Bear Blog to Hugo

Why?

I sticked with Bear from the start as I wasn’t planning on doing anything “fancy” with the blog. Now that I’ve thought of adding images for a while, I think it’s time to use a static website generator, such as Hugo, to serve my own content using e.g. GitHub Pages.

Existing script

I found a 2024 blog post that provided the following script for doing the transition:

 1import csv
 2import os
 3
 4with open('post_exports.csv') as csv_file:
 5    csv_reader = csv.reader(csv_file, delimiter=',')
 6    os.makedirs("./pages", exist_ok = True)
 7    os.makedirs("./posts", exist_ok = True)
 8    for row in csv_reader:
 9        dir = ""
10        if row[11] == "True":
11            dir = "pages/"
12        else:
13            dir = "posts/"
14        with open(dir + row[4]+'.md', 'w') as post:
15            publish = row[9]
16            if publish == 'False':
17                draft = "true"
18            else:
19                draft = "false"
20            post.write("+++\n")
21            post.write("slug = '" + row[4] + "'\n")
22            post.write("title = '" + row[3] + "'\n")
23            post.write("date = " + row[6] + "\n")
24            post.write("draft = " + draft + "\n")
25            post.write("tags = " + row[8] + "\n")
26            post.write("+++\n")
27            post.write(row[12])

Doing it manually sigh

But I didn’t like the output. Some of the resulting files were missing metadata, which would take longer to compile manually.

I felt like writing my own script, but I have so few posts at the time that the investment wasn’t worth it. So, for the time being, I’m doing the transition manually. Which also lets me experiment with Hugo’s features and configuration that I would otherwise miss.

Guitar class so far

Short update on my guitar classes:

• I’m getting used to curling my fingers to reach the frets and doing so quickly.

• We’re learning the Happy Birthday melody. I had tried my hand at a version I found online, but my teacher came to class with an entirely different version. I’m still doing good.

  

• I got a guitar, sort of. A friend of my father had an old guitar built in Bucaramanga¹ that he wasn’t using. It does the job, but the first string isn’t quite right.