Absolutely nothing against Hugo, in fact I love Hugo as a blog framework. I found myself focused too much on having the right look and meddling with themes that I was not producing any posts. This one will be short, I am not a wordy person. I just wanted to get my thoughts down while they were on my mind. I will return to Hugo at some point or maybe something better than Hugo will have come around by the time I am ready to return. In the meantime, I will focus on creating posts within this repository.

When I started, I struggled with what I was going to use. I wanted to use Rails but I couldn’t find much information on how to use Rails with an embedded app in Shopify. That has since been debunked. Before it was debunked, I settled on using Remix because it was in the Shopify developer documentation and made it easy to get started. Really, this turned out to be a huge pain in the ass both in development and with deployment. ...

UPDATE 2025-02-27 Replaced asdf for mise. I had some oddities pop up on the latest asdf update that I didn’t have with mise and mise seems to work nicer. Sometimes I like to wipe my Macbook and start over but I forget some little things that make starting over frustrating. I am not going to give full detail instructions on how I install it. I usually just follow the steps from the project site. I will only include nuances that I may do different or in addition to the normal steps. ...