October 22, 2019

Why did I choose Hugo?

Hugo is a static site generator. To begin with all web sites were static. But now we have web content management systems, such as WordPress. Each approach has advantages and problems. Many things are best of their class, provided you choose the criteria carefully. It's easy to archive a static site. One simply makes a back-up of its files. But to archive a WordPress site, you also need to archive the content of a database, and the software that delivers the content.

July 31, 2019

Linear homology in a nutshell: now on arxiv

Introduction Today I submitted my preprint Linear homology in a nutshell to the Arxiv. I've spent about half my life (i.e. since 1985) working on it, so I call it my half-life problem. I hope it's now more than half-done. The abstract is below. If some wise person had suggested years ago that I investigate the ideas expressed in the abstract, I'd have made much quicker progress. (Links at foot of page.