For some reason, I’m uncomfortable keeping my private Git repositories on Microsoft Github, so I keep them on one of my servers and push/pull from my development laptop.

Here’s how I do that.

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Here are some of the authors I like.

By “like”, I don’t necessarily mean I like everything they wrote. But I’ve enjoyed multiple works by them, and would definitely consider reading anything new that comes out from them.

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I’m starting this blog using Hugo.

My first attempt was to use Jekyll, in particular because then it’s easy to host for free on GitHub.

But to use Jekyll the way its instructions wanted me to, I had to install Ruby and then Jekyll. The example commands in the Jekyll instructions mostly failed due to wanting to write to system directories, yet everything I read online about Ruby installations said “NEVER USE SUDO”. After 30 minutes, I gave up.

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