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Consider ambitious theme rewrite from scratch so I actually learn how Hugo's templating systems and JS/CSS is loaded properly. Maintaining/modifying existing themes remains confusing.

https://zwbetz.com/make-a-hugo-blog-from-scratch/

Some tools such as htmltest seem to catch more errors than I'm aware of. See #8. Hugo considers this out of the scope of the static site generator (and is probably slow compared to the site build process), so if we want automated link checking we need to defer to some other tooling.

Links seem to now be double-expanded https://www.strava.com/athletes/https://www.strava.com/athletes/16965390 instead of https://www.strava.com/athletes/16965390. Probably from not testing when changing theme.

Having to use the forward for featured article images as /blog/article-folder/imagename.png is a little too klunky and should probably just always read from /blog/article-folder/featured.png automatically.

Need to write or build a photo gallery generator. Currently manually creating thumbnails with image magic and hard-linking them in posts is certainly tedious.

Hugo deploy syncing to s3 seems to always upload my doctoral defense slides with an MD5differs given as reason (but ofc, even in verbose does not tell me what MD5 it calculates).

Checking the file in the blog, and copies downloaded from s3 give the same MD5sum.

I should probably move this file and any other static items directly into another S3 bucket that is publicly linkable, but not directly managed by hugo. And figure out how to permanently remove it from this repo, since putting such files in here was probably bad practice.

Currently the aws s3 sync command does a full upload of the site, which is not intended behavior. Consider figuring out how to configure the blog to use hugo's new deploy mechanism. This may fix caching/transfer which may get tedious if I start writing posts with more image content.

Need to preprocess images for use on the site as it notably dampens mobile performance.

Either command line scripts or install Hugo shortcode, maybe using several of the steps featured here:
https://laurakalbag.com/processing-responsive-images-with-hugo/.