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Hello Again

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The last post here was in June 2020. Time for a refresh.

What changed
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The site moved from Pelican to Hugo. Posts are plain Markdown in a Git repo, and every push to main builds and deploys automatically.

A code block, to check highlighting
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from datetime import date

last_post = date(2020, 6, 2)
print(f"{(date(2026, 10, 29) - last_post).days} days since the last post")

A table, to check styling
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Then (2020)Now (2026)
PelicanHugo
reStructuredTextMarkdown
Disqus commentsnone (yet)

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