It’s happened. I’m officially one of those “good ol’ days” people, at the ripe old age of 35. Quicksand I hate how we exist online: a stream of isolated thought-bytes (and thot-bytes) taken out of context and embedded in an algorithmically knitted tapestry from across our acquaintances, crushes, IRL celebrities, tapestry-celebrities and “I-don’t-remember-why-I-started-following-them"s.

So I decided to rewrite my formerly jekyll-powered personal site with hugo. Why? I’ll say upfront that I believe one should use static sites for 99% of use cases Jekyll, for 99% of static sites I love how mature and true to its core Jekyll has remained.

ℹ️ 2023/12: Sadly, this article is outdated. I attempted to get this working again but abandoned the project for getting too invasive with the desktop OS as described in the text.

It’s a fairly common question near- and new-grads try to answer in the STEM field. Should I work at the small startup/start my own company, or join a big corporation?