Reviving My Creative Archive: Migrating Poetry, Stories, and Blog Posts from 2009

Reviving My Creative Archive Over the past few days, I’ve been working on bringing back content from my old website that I thought was lost to the digital ether. This wasn’t just a simple copy-paste operation - it involved migrating poetry, stories, and blog posts from my original site that I took offline back in 2013 because I was embarrassed by how “web 1.x” it looked. The Migration Process The process took about a day, squeezed in between other tasks, but it was made possible through the collaboration of several AI tools. I used KiloCode extensively to create scripts for converting various poems and stories by myself and my wife Pat to markdown format suitable for Hugo. These scripts also handled extracting dates and times from the original content. ...

September 20, 2025 · 5 min · 1057 words · Simon Huggins

Building This Website: From WordPress to Hugo with AI Assistance

From Basic WordPress to Comprehensive Hugo Framework This weekend, I undertook what turned out to be one of the most productive web development sessions I’ve had in years. In roughly half a day, I went from a few basic WordPress pages that said nothing particularly useful to a comprehensive, professionally structured website with multiple project showcases, automated content generation, and even a second site for my experimental Life Stream program. ...

August 26, 2025 · 6 min · 1182 words · Simon Huggins