housekeeping

Somewhat late to the party, jamesgreenblue.com is now a static website built using Hugo. Statically generated websites consume less energy as all pages and assets are pre-built – the promise of halving the carbon cost of my blog was a powerful motivator. According to one website carbon calculator, now only 0.01 g of CO2 is produced every time someone visits a page. It’s also lovely to have faster load times, improved security and not have to think about Wordpress updates 😅...

Writing the first post for a new blog is, to me, a lot like starting a fresh notebook, or buying a new piece of diving equipment. There is trepidation about getting started mixed with excitement about what will come from it. At some point you have to stop worrying about it and just start somewhere. So lets go! (This is my third attempt, so to give myself a head start I have collated a few posts written for other sites....