New Year, New Blog (Again)

Here we go again!

In what risks becoming an annual tradition, around here, I’ve decided to move the Rules as Code Diary away from Medium into a self-hosted blog built with hugo.

This is mainly motivated by the fact that a lot of what I’m writing these days is actually code, and Medium is pretty limited in terms of what it can do to display code typed into the editor. Hugo, on the other hand, will show you more or less whatever I can type into a markdown document, with syntax highlighting.

oooh(X):-
  look(X),
  prolog_syntax_highlighting(X).

and:
  - some
  - yaml

def and_of_course(it=does):
    return "python"  # too.

To get the same effect at Medium I would need to save my code to a gist, and embed the gist in the medium page, which is a bunch of unnecessary steps.

It also gives me the ability to use headings to build tables of contents, and use tags to help you find related posts that you might also be interested in, which you should be able to see on the right.

I’m still learning how to do it, and apart from changing the name and the background image, it’s just using the default theme. I have also not nailed down exactly where I’m going to host the blog, so thanks for your patience as these things get sorted out over time. In the meantime, I guess it’s wherever you found it.

Let me know on twitter if you have any problems with it.