Web Development on Jessica Huynh

Agentic Website Update

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:20:12 -0400

Six years between posts is probably not breaking a world record for time between blog updates but it might be close. I’ve made a number of fixes/improvements (most notably, fixing the RSS feed and category/tag pages and adding the privacy policy) but before that, I had to bring how the site is laid out up to date and in line with the latest version of Hugo.

Last time I touched this site, I was on Hugo 0.79.0 and there was a toolchain set up to do LESS preprocessing. We are now on Hugo 0.164.0, which includes built-in Dart Sass preprocessing via the binary. Bringing things six years and 85 versions into the future seemed both annoying and not exactly fun, so I decided to see what would happen with agentic coding.

Taxonomies in Hugo

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 22:06:47 -0400

It’s been quite a while since I’ve touched my site but stay-at-home makes for strange decision making. I’m doing some cleanup of the design, fixing broken links, and generally making it more efficient (minifying, dropping dependencies since I’m already deployed on a CDN, that sort of thing). One of the changes I just finished was fixing up my links to the post type, categories, and tags, which all make use of Hugo’s taxonomies.

Continuous Deployment

Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:32:11 -0400

tl;dr: switched continuous deployment hosting providers due to laziness and stinginess

Migrating to Hugo

Wed, 04 May 2016 16:43:24 -0400

I’ve begun the processing of migrating my blog posts from WordPress over to Hugo, a static site generator. I just hand migrated the lengthiest posts (the image galleries I can do later when I figure out a good way to associate images with particular posts). Layout is all new, all improved!

Starting out with Discover Deis

Tue, 04 Aug 2015 12:00:00 -0400

For the past nine weeks, I’ve been a member of the Voice, Mobile, and Web Application Development Justice Brandeis Semester, a program that helped us learn exactly what it seems like we should. Now that it’s over and done with, I’d like to look back on exactly how we got our app to where it is and some steps in the future we can take, because it’d be nice to make this a much more official app and fill out the empty spots in our already extensive database.

Custom Sidebars in WordPress (again)

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400

I figure it would be a good idea to repost my previous entry on custom sidebars in WordPress, partly for fun, partly to remind myself. This should work for any WordPress website on custom hosting (which means not WordPress.com blogs, unfortunately, unless there’s some magical way of getting at the code the Internet has yet to discover). I will be assuming you’re working off one of the WordPress default templates or can modify as needed on your own.