# How I write my blog and what is the problem

  Yesterday I got an email reminding me to renew my domain fee. It is a
Domain Name I registered at NameSilo.com, which I currently only use for
my personal blog. It occurred to me that I have not updated my blog for
some time, and also this might be a good time for a new bog post. The
blog was set up using Hugo, I push the directory to GitHub and also
Netlify. So I fired up RStudio, where I usually write blog posts using
the R package blogdown. However, this time the good old Hugo won't
build, complaining about some template not found error. 

  It never worked this way before so I knew it must had something to do
with newer version of Hugo since Hugo was from Debian repository and
there were regular updates from time to time even tough I did not write
blogs foe quite some time. First thing I tried to update the Hugo theme
I was using because themes usually update to catch up with changes in
Hugo so that they always work together. In my case, sadly, it did not
work because it appeared teh theme I was using had not been actively
maintained for over 2 years as I could tell from GitHub commits history.
 
  This got me thinking about blogging with Hugo. Hugo is constantly
upgrading which is a good thing because this means it's been actively
developed. However, hugo themes are usually developed by personal
developers and tend to lose track along the way when these develoers
shifted their preferences. When break changes happen due to Hugo
upgrades, old themes stop working and you have to wait for upgrade of
the theme itself, fix it yourself, or turn to another theme that works.
I am not a promgrammer and HTML/CSS/JavaScript are simply not my
expertise. This time, though, I was lucky enough to fix it because it
was quite obvious judging from the error messages. Next time maybe I
won't, or the time after that. 

# OK so what to do then

So I am thinking about maybe switching to a minimal theme, CSS without
JS enabled. It will not be as fancy but I suppose it will last, and the
website itself won't be as bloated either. This also reminds me the
advantages of Gopher/Gemini. Simple texts won't need any theme to work,
and it is super fast.