Why Change
I have stopped writing to my blog because I run into a big issue. My company forbidden me to install any kind of software in my Laptop, and that off course include Linux on it. I started blogging again when the pandemic started mainly because 100 Days to Offload project of my friend Kev Quirk.
I started this new blog and because my main site Garron.me was mainly dedicated to Linux and started this to share anything not too related to Linux, but I kept my way of blogging, I use a Static site generator and it is Middleman.
It was the work from home era and I had my personal computer all time with me so I was able to install Ubuntu inside Windows and then install Ruby and Middleman, everything worked fine until I needed to go back to office and pass my personal computer to my son (I do not like having two computers).
So after some two years of not blogging I wanted to start again, and once again I looked what Kev was doing, and I found this post Moving from Jekyll to Blot, so I decided to try it too.
The process was easy, I already had the posts in Markdown, there was just two minor issues.
Permalink Structure
I decided to use categories instead of tagging, and this blog has two of them.
- Posts
- Notes
So, I had two folders one for each category, to achieve that in Middleman I just needed to have two physically two folders with the posts and that was it.
To keep the site structure I had to add something like this to each post frontmatter. (link: /posts/middleman-to-blot.html)
Images
With Middleman I have all images in a folder called /images/ and all of them are linked from there to my posts, this is for any post that have images on it.
Blot converts all images into posts, so I had to rename /images/ folder to /_images/ and change all links to images in all posts that uses them, not too complicated as there are few posts on this blog and not all of them has images.
Conclusion
I am still learning but I am happy with the switch, I am using the default template, but I like the old template of the blog so I will adapt it from Middleman to Blot once I can learn how it works.
For now, I think I am back to blogging. My old site will be kept on Middleman and I will be adding Linux how-tos from time to time just to keep it as a Database for anyone who needs it.