Daniel Mikusa

After a long time of using Python & Flask as the base for my site, I’ve switched over to Hugo. My site doesn’t change very often, so this move makes a lot of sense. It’s easier to host and no more Python updates to keep up with.

The move was pretty easy. I created a new Hugo project and copied all my static resources from the old site to the /static directory of my Hugo project. Then I took my Python Jinja2 templates layout and used it for the base of my default layout in Hugo (i.e. baseof.html). I was then able to add content for the pages of my site, and lastly copy over the posts that I wanted to keep.

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I recently found some time to finish up a project I started a long time ago. It’s a simple implementation of the “Simon Says” game in Javascript, jQuery, HTML5 and CSS3. The code ended up being pretty simple and it was a fun side project.

I’ve got a demo of it here.

Source code is on Github.

I’ve pushed out a few changes to the site and moved it to run on Pivotal Web Services.

If you’re unaware PWS is a hosted version of Cloud Foundry that’s run by Pivotal, my employer. It’s a great place to run apps of all sizes. Find out more info here.

I’ve pushed out some small updates to the site, plus some larger technical changes.

My first change was to move from web.py to Flask. The main reason for this was to make use of Flask FlatPages to store my posts (rather than a DB). Being that this is a small and simple site, it made my life easier to just store site data in a flat file rather than in a database.

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Welcome to the new site!

I think the last time I did a major upgrade on my site was sometime in 2004. That’s simply way too long!

As part of the update, I’ve done a complete redesign, using a nice template from freecsstemplate.org, adding some jQuery and some of my original photography. In addition, I’ve moved the hosting to Google’s AppEngine for hopefully improved reliability.

For the long time visitors, I’ve tried to preserve the link structure of my previous site, automatically redirecting you to the new links.

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