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Yet another blog migration

2 minutes read Published: 2025-08-31

One of my early-day blogs (which I still have control over), was from 2019 - I was using Hugo to build that blog. The first post was "How to parse MathJax Superscripts and Subscripts in Hugo". All I wrote was:

The trick is simple: we can define a specific $\LaTeX$ command for superscripts and subscripts, i.e.:

\let\sub_ \let\sup^

before a page document. Then when we use MathJax with Hugo, along with the above definition, we are free from underscores being <em> and so on. No additional CSS is needed.

That's all and it's as simple as that. I think I really wanted to show I discovered that trick. That's always the reason we write, or I write if you may. In this era of AI, we are really scared about writing on our own. Our paragraphs will never be that good, nostalgic, or poetic. Trust me. This blog is yet again being migrated to use something new (Pure HTML → Hugo → Gatsby (powered by GraphQL) → Zola 🦀), and serves as sort of a time capsule yet again that we can produce work that is more unique, and perhaps distinguishable from what text models can generate.

As this is a migration I would also like to move a few artworks to here:

Mathematics artwork taken in 2019 at Exploratorium, San Francisco

More artwork

More artwork, I like the right one