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Take on Rules began in 2011 as a Wordpress site. In the autumn of 2018, I migrated from Wordpress to Jekyll. I leverage exported utilities of Wordpress and then spent time cleaning up the results to best leverage the Markdown format.

In moving from Wordpress to Jekyll 📖 , I shifted hosting to Github Pages.

Almost immediately after the cutover, I switched from Jekyll to Hugo; initially so that I could more quickly iterate on the Cascading Stylesheet 📖 and Hypertext Markup Language 📖 . I adopted the Hugo Tufte theme, but my fork has long diverged.

In December 2019, I jettisoned Google Analytics. Just over a year later, in January 2021, I bid farewell to Github Pages and started hosting via Nearly Free Speech.

When moving from WordPress to Static Site Generators (SSGs 📖) , I started using Atom 📖 to write my Markdown. (Sidenote: While using Wordpress, I would sometimes write the posts using a local text editor.) In 2020, with the deprecation of Atom , I started writing blog posts via Emacs 📖 .

Up until 2022, I was writing my blog posts directly in the Take on Rules Hugo 📖 project. (Sidenote: A private repository.) Since 2022, I’ve been writing blog posts in Org-Mode 📖 and, via Ox-Hugo 📖 , exporting them to Markdown in the Hugo project. I wrote more about this in The How of Take on Rules.

To move the contents from Hugo to the public facing site, I use several Ruby 📖 and Rake 📖 scripts. As of November, 2024 those scripts are also not public.

For more of the gritty details, you can look at Take on Rules’s Changelog.