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My goal in 2025 is to reduce my endless, mindless consumption and try to actually produce content on my Hugo blog.

Before I can do that I think I need to evaluate why I hardly ever blog (it's hard work and time consuming).

I will evaluate ox-hugo to make it smoother.

Then I will prevaricate on single, monolithic org file versus org file per post.

Then I will consider the migration of 1,000 existing markdown posts

Then I will evaluate comments for a static site.

See you in 2026 :-)

@andyc I'm reading your old blog in isolation but everything is in triplicate. Any idea why?

@david Yes. Like you I was experimenting and configured a documented option inSettings.

That didn't work so I added a code snippet to 'partial.html'.

Inevitably that didn't work so I added more HTML to 'global_just_feckin_work.html'.

And that didn't work.

@andyc all right, I'll ask you first next time.

@david Sorry. That was a reference to your own duplicated YouTube blocks.

Are you using

yakshaving.co.uk/index.xml

as the RSS source ? I don't see these posts duplicated in there.

Maybe unsubscribe and recreate fresh ?

@andyc

www.nbrightside.com/atom.xml

Anyway, it's no big deal, I just thought it was amusing after my duplicate YouTube mishap.

andyc

@david That domain is dead. Switch to yakshaving.co.uk.

@david

Good news - I am busy working on my first blog post for two years.

Bad news - it involves converting a ancient Markdown draft to orgmode (including images, lists) and is about Oracle APEX which won't be of interest to anyone here 🙂

@andyc I'd unsubscribe but I already deleted your old nbrightside feed so now I'm stuck with this if I want to re-read your funny old posts.

@david All the old posts were migrated. Took me 8 weeks.

@andyc migrated = copied and pasted?

@david Mostly but the pesky front matter had to be tweaked for Hugo.