A personal site by Bruce Alderson featuring essays on craft, makery, and software, along with recipes and creative projects. The site has been continuously evolving since before "weblogs" existed, serving as both a creative outlet and testing ground for new tools and techniques.
# Start development server with live reloading
hugo server
# Include draft posts in development
hugo server --buildDrafts
# Build static site to /public directory
hugo
# Deploy to production
./deploy.sh/content/blog/YYYY/- Blog posts organized by year (2008-2025)/content/food/- Recipes and cooking content/content/projects/- Maker projects and art/content/pages/- Static pages (about, style guide)
The site uses a custom Hugo theme called "w42" (located in themes/w42/):
- Based on PaperMod with extensive customizations
- Optimized for readability and clean design
- "Warped" branding with colorful header/footer accents
- Rainbow-colored article links with hover effects
- 40+ language translations
- Responsive mobile-first design
hugo.toml- Site configurationCLAUDE.md- AI assistant guidance for code editingTASKS.md- Development todo listdeploy.sh- Deployment script (rsync to remote server)
- Google Analytics integration
- Light theme by default
- Built-in search functionality
- Year-based content organization
- Content editor configured for vim
- Draft mode visibility controls
- Pure Hugo implementation (no package.json/npm)
- Static assets served from
/static - Generated content in
/public(not version controlled) - Extensive content history dating back to 2008
- URL: https://warpedvisions.org/
- Author: Bruce Alderson
- Social: @robotpony.bsky.social
- Hosting: Dreamhost (20+ years and counting)
- Generator: Hugo (previously Wordpress, Jekyll, Movable Type, Blosxom, and many others)