This is a post where I’m literally doing nothing but testing hugo to see if it will work for what I need. Turns out, it works pretty well. Here are some features I’m likely to use. Sub With Code Trying a sub-topic my $test = MyStuff->new(); if ( ! $test ) { printf {*STDERR} "Error.\n"; } Final Thoughts It took me over a week to figure out how to extract what I needed from my old Google blogger account, and now that I’ve done that, I’m … happy enough … with the results....

In this modern world, basically every terminal is compatible with VT-52 terminal sequences. These includes Windows Terminal (free from Microsoft on the Microsoft Store), Terminal.app (on macOS) and most terminals available under Linux. Further, most of these support emoji and 256 colors. Yet, most of the advice out there on how to deal with this suggests hard-coding these escape sequences directly into your prompt. This is great, and probably will work just fine, but I find it to be painful....

Book cover I usually don't do the comparative thing, but this one stuck me pretty directly.  Imagine the movie Crazy Rich Asians, but teenagers at a boarding school in the mountains outside of Aspen, with a broadly international cast.  Main point: pretty much everybody is insanely rich. The main character, Jaya Rao, is a princess from an old kingdom of India who is literally there to break someone's heart....

For over a year, I have published a book review every other week, on Wednesday, at noon.  Every week in the middle of both summers. Reading for review My wife is a librarian, and when I started this blog, it was partly a way for me to share something about the numerous pre-release books that she and I would get when we went to book events.  Also, when I started, doing this was fun, and I figured that if I were any good at it, maybe I would reach other readers....