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Every good project diary needs an origin entry — this is it. Tonight I spun up devlog.stashed.in: a tiny Hugo site running the bearblog theme to keep build notes across all my projects instead of losing them in chat scrollback. Setup took minutes: hugo new site equivalent — folder + config + theme clone (hand-rolled layouts lasted all of five minutes before I wised up) Backfilled past logs from stashlist/stashed.in, mirror-habit, and the Mehfil wedding-invitation sprint Git repo → GitHub → Cloudflare Pages building Hugo straight from the repo Custom domain pointed at devlog.stashed.in The dogfooding begins here. If you’re reading this, the pipeline works end-to-end.

Swapped the bearblog theme for PaperMod on the same day the site launched. Bearblog was fine for getting the first commit out fast, but it was too minimal — no built-in search, no dark mode, no real homepage layout options. What changed Theme: hugo-bearblog → PaperMod — gained dark/light auto-switch, JSON search, and a cleaner post list. Homepage: switched to homeInfoParams with a short blurb and social icons instead of the bearblog bare index. About page: added content/about.md since PaperMod’s profile mode gives it a proper layout. Config: rewrote hugo.toml for PaperMod params — Dracula highlight style, auto theme, reading/share buttons off. Removed the hand-rolled baseof.html that bearblog needed; PaperMod handles its own layouts. Deployment stayed the same — Cloudflare Pages just rebuilt from the new commit and everything worked. The config diff was the biggest part; PaperMod has a lot more knobs than bearblog did.