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Hugo Reboot

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100

More than twelve years ago I wrote about rebooting this site from WordPress to Jekyll. Back then the blog was already seven years old, and the move felt like a necessary cleanup: static files, fewer moving parts, and a website that asked for less care and feeding.

Today I am doing the same thing again, this time moving from Jekyll to Hugo.

The motivation, however, is a bit different. In 2014 I still thought of this place mostly as a blog. The design, the feeds, and the mental model were all centered around posts. That made sense at the time, but the web has changed and so have I. Short updates moved elsewhere (X/Facebook/LinkedIn), professional profiles multiplied, and the material I want people to find first is no longer necessarily the last thing I wrote.

Jekyll Reboot

Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:14:00 +0000

This blog is now 7 years old and time hasn’t been gentle on it.

When I started this blog it was a Wordpress blog and during the first months I mostly used to post random stuff. Twitter and Facebook where not what you see today, and therefore it made complete sense to post that random stuff here. Looking back into those posts I see lots of stuff I would not say/post today has they are not “blog material”.

New Blog Engine

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:05:04 +0000

Guess what, I wasn’t happy with “just” changing themes… and decided to switch theme again along side with a new blogging engine. Wordpress is great and all, but required me to keep constant attention (keeping up with security updates), and overall performance was lacking (even though I used the great Super Cache plugin).

Since moving to a low cost VPS provider (found them through lowendbox ) which is capped to 256MB, I’ve been struggling to keep my resource usage controlled. This has led me to survey alternative blog engines that are less resource savvy than Wordpress running on LAMP, one of such alternatives grab my attention.

New Theme

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:05:04 +0000

This blog is now more then 4 years old, and was in dear need of some shake ups…

It’s true that I don’t post here that often, with a new semester that started just last week, with a brand new class on Information Systems Infra-Structures that I’m now preparing, with new research projects just kicking in, and of-course with my ~20month year old daughter that requires full attention from everyone in the house, it’s been hard to publish new posts that have been lining in the pipeline.

Desktop Meme

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:44:46 +0100

Take a screenshot of your desktop right now, don’t change anything, post it on your blog!

Google Chrome

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:15:18 +0100

disclaimer: as with everyone else’s post this post does not add a dime to what has already been said by the right people (Google staff). Instead it will focus on the unanswered questions.

What is the need for yet another browser ? It’s an open source browser, there are already several good open source browsers such as Firefox.

Great, it has several new features, but why weren’t they included to existing open-source projects ?

New Theme

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:31:04 +0100

Well, what can I say…

The old theme was hanging in this site since almost it’s beginning as a temporary theme till I got something done. That day arrived today (or tonight) when with the help of my wife I costumized WP-Andreas01 theme.

Hope everyone likes it!

PS: anyone browsing the blog using an iPhone/iPod Touch will get a surprise ;)

Websites as graphs

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:14:31 +0100

Today a friend sent me a link to an applet called Websites as Graphs.

Here’s what it does:

*dgomes.camelot.com.pt*

As most of you might already know, web pages are written in a graph structured markup language (HTML). Some complex (such as your's truly blog), some quite simple (such as google website):

[google]

But what is it doing? What this applet does is plain simple: it generates a graph of the html structure of a given website using the basic HTML tags as nodes in the graph. In order to read the graph you should know that:

Going Bilingue

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:44:31 +0100

Starting in the last Post, all post related to Portuguese activities/politics/events will be posted in Portuguese

Desde o post anterior que todos os assuntos relacionados com Portugal serão publicados em Português

New theme is up

Thu, 31 May 2007 20:14:30 +0000

Still needing some work, but at least it’s a new theme :)

In the duh department I realized I had an english blog with a portuguese name… translation done

[Update 12 Jun 2007] Well, I must say the last theme was not my favorite, so I updated the site yet again :-D

New hosting

Mon, 28 May 2007 12:06:58 +0100

Starting today, my blog has a new home

In the upcoming week I hope to start using a new theme to go with it ;)

Hello World

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:47:17 +0000

What’s a blog without a hello world post ?

For more then a week I have battled myself against doing this blog…

Today I declared defeat!