Construction Finished

After eight months, my blog have finally reached a place where I feel comfortable taking down the "under heavy construction" notice on my home page. In stead of out right deleting the site road map though, I'm stashing it into a blog post.

Site Road Map

• ☑ Find new hosting location. Currently using DigitalOcean.
• ☑ Install Arch Linux on server.
• ☑ Search for WP replacement. Hugo is pretty good.
• ☑ Find a suitable theme. Currently using hugo-xmin , may consider forking it and write my own ( soresu ).
• ☑ Server side config, like post-receive for git auto deploy.
• ☑ Language switcher that does more than redirecting to home page.
• ☑ Enable Disqus.
• ☑ Support \(\LaTeX\) expressions via MathJax KaTeX.
• ☑ Copy-paste fixed page contents from old site (and translate them).
• ☑ Enable https.
• ☑ Backup old WP site.
• ☑ Transfer domain to Google Domains and ensure DNS works as intended.
• ☑ Find out how to write with org-mode or R markdown.
• ☑ Configure multilingual support, including footer text, title, etc.
• ☑ Find out how to make emacs work with fcitx .
• ☑ Use Google's Noto Sans font Oxygen Sans and Source Code Pro Iosevka for code.
• ☑ Find a suitable icon/favicon.
• ☑ Improve templates for posts to display tags and categories.
• ☑ Cosmetic changes, i.e. no underlines for hyperlinks.
• ☑ Deal with some nuances in using org-mode with hugo , like how to get syntax highlighting to work properly.
• ☑ Host my own email.
• ☑ Customize hugo new to make it more useful, i.e. create multilingual versions directly.
• ☑ Self-host commenting system as a replacement of Disqus.
• ☑ Use Let's Encrypt's wildcard certificate.
• ☑ Restore/rewrite and translate some of the more valuable old posts.

What's on Home Page Now?

I already have an about page and a contact page for whatever I think people might be interested in knowing about myself, so I have no clue what I should put on home page. Since I found the old site road map to be a great way of reminding myself the stuffs I need to get done, I'll replace the road map with another to-do list: my goals for 2018. I am definitely not the most motivated kind of person, but seeing an unfinished to-do list every once in a while does get on my nerves. Let's see how well this is gonna work.