Hugo on Bas-Man's Musings

Build a robots.txt file from a data file

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:30:00 +0900

Recently, I was reviewing how I generate my blog. I have noticed that my site seems to get a lot of bot traffic. I would rather not see this traffic so I thought I should investigate how I might limit them to reduce the amount of traffic. So, a bit of searching and thinking and this is what I have decided for now.

Moving Site from GitHub

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 13:50:00 +0900

Hi All,

So yesterday I decided to move my site from github.io to one of my personal domains. I am not sure why I decided this. I mean Github provides a great free service. And I had lots of automation in place. In this article I will just cover how i went about updating all pages with redirects from github to the new domain.

The Goal

My goal was to leave my old site up on GitHub for a few weeks to give Google some time to update its indexing. With all old pages being able to redirect to their new counterparts. This requires that I have redirects in place for each page. I will then remove the github site repo.

Hugo Custom Info Boxes

Sat, 05 Jun 2021 22:30:00 +0900

The other day I got my regular summary from GoHugo a discourse site where I am a member. This lead me to an interesting blog, which then lead me to an article on how to add custom info boxes to your site if it is not provided by your theme.

Add a New Social to Beautifulhugo

Sun, 25 Apr 2021 23:00:00 +0900

Fairly recently I changed my theme for my personal blog. I switched to Beautifulhugo. I find it to be a nice clean theme.

Beautifulhugo supports a lot of social sites. However, it is also missing some that I like. In particular Dev.to and Flipboard.

I had previously added these to the other theme I was using. So I went about adding them to Beautifulhugo.

Publish your next Hugo blog post automatically using Github Actions

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 08:00:00 +0900

The Challenge

I wanted to be able to publish a new post that has already been written at a future date, without needing to manually publish the article.

Private Hugo Repo to Public on Github

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 16:51:00 +0900

I was researching ways of moving to Hugo for my site generator. I looked at a few options and as part of this I came a cross a workflow in github that allows me to store my site in a private repo and then publish the site to a public repo without too much fuss.