I am Ian, a software developer and agilist based in central Switzerland. This site is simple a place for me to dump my thoughts.

My intention for this site is to share information and not collect anything about users. Having said that I am using a number of thrid party services that will probably collect some data. These include:

• GitLab - This Hugo site is hosted as GitLab pages on gitlab.com
• CloudFlare - who are the CDN behind which this site is hosted
• Google Analytics - as I wanted to understand what their…

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Setting up the site using GitLab Pages

GitLab provides a stable platform for hosting the site, however, the domain name does not look profesional. Hosting on a personal domain name looks a lot better. The steps I have for this are:

• Purchasing a domain through Infomaniak
• Setting up a CloudFlare Proxy for the DNS name
• Configuring GitLab pages
• Update to the Hugo base URL config

After deciding to create _another_ personal blog and choosing the technologies, the next step is to build the basic site.

For this I’ve been using a Debian laptop for local Hugo development. Unfortunately, the Hugo version available through the Debain package manager was quite old, so I downloaded the latest release directly from GitHub instead.

From a browser navigate to the Hugo releases page…