To Shave Less Yaks

I’m terrible when it comes to yak shaving. For those new to the phrase, yak shaving is a form of procrastination. It’s performing an almost meaningless task with the intent to accomplish a larger, more meaningful task. This evening, I was working out how I could set up Obsidian to Hugo publishing. This devolved into an over-engineered solution that would require syncing my Obsidian vault to a server that would host the blog, using an open-source Python package to perform format translations, filter, and push the files into Hugo’s, then serve the content....

August 17, 2023 · Mikey O'Brien