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Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:22:05 +0900

New features for the site

Hugo Theme Change

Sun, 18 Feb 2024 16:22:05 +0900

Brightblack has been on the Hugo static site generator for quite a while now - almost three years in fact - and I’d been thinking of putting a new coat of paint on the place for a few months, but I’d been promising myself to put any brightblack time into content and not playing with tooling.

However, an actual problem has forced me to make the change. Newer builds of Hugo had deprecated some references around Google Analytics, which was breaking my build. I tried updating the theme but to no avail, I could have hacked the theme to make it work, or rolled Hugo back and I even looked for a quick alternate theme I’d tested years ago, but to install an update I’d have needed to get into the nuts and bolts of the git index.

Windows 11 upgrade

Sun, 18 Feb 2024 16:22:05 +0900

Windows 11 has been out for over 2 years now (since October 2021) and I’ve not felt much impetus to move; there’s some nice features (tabbed file browsers etc.), but there’s potential downsides, and that’s before we get into the issue of telemetry.

However, all that aside, I have updated my Windows 10 box to Windows 11. Despite all of the above, why? Well I expect to update some family PCs and I want to guinea-pig it first, see what’s weird, see if anyting doesn’t work.

scp has been deprecated

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:22:05 +0900

Long story short, but I learned last week (and a couple of years or so after the fact) that the openSSH team have advised people to move away from scp (secure copy) towards SFTP (SSH/Secure file transfer protocol) and rsync.

sftp should also not be confused with ftps - that’s completely different, and not secure.

I’ve used scp a little over the last few years, mainly for one-off copies between my Ubuntu server and a couple of Pis I have, but any normal file copy I do I’ve long used rsync (or Robocopy sometimes from the Windows box). sftp is quite nice to use, allowing simple local and remove directory traversal so it’s certainly a more usable option too!

Site News

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 16:22:05 +0900

A few changes and updates