I spent some time tidying up paullai.com. Nothing earth-shattering or a major redesign—more like doing a bit of interior decorating in my own room: adding labels, sorting things into categories. After the changes, the site finally feels like it’s starting to take shape.
Organizing
This site is currently built with Hugo, and the content mainly lives in content/zh-TW/. My idea is simple: from now on I’ll write posts in Traditional Chinese in Obsidian first, then use Hugo to turn them into web pages. If I need an English version, I’ll use a script to automatically translate it into content/en/.
That way, I can focus on “writing” and “organizing my work,” and the publishing workflow will be a lot smoother too.
What I did
First, I cleaned up the Obsidian publishing workflow. Now there’s a blog template that I can insert directly after creating a new post, so I don’t have to retype the front matter every time. I also wrote a site manual—so if I forget how to translate, build, or push in the future, I can just go back and read that document.
I also sorted out how Chinese and English content stay in sync. Traditional Chinese is the primary version, and the English body is translated by script and then copied over as a separate file.
The About page got a small update too. I added a monochrome little icon in front of the title to keep things clean and simple.
Blogroll: I want to use this page to collect blogs I like, so I made it a table: names on the left, my personal notes on the right. The names use a more eye-catching color, while the notes stay a bit more understated. It feels more like a small directory I maintain for myself. (This part was actually inspired by Wiwi.blog )
Next up
Today I saw AlexHsu’s comment board and thought I could probably build something like that with Artalk in the future. But the site doesn’t have much content yet, and a comment system also means thinking about databases, backups, spam, and notifications. I’ll leave a note in the site architecture document for now and evaluate it again once there’s more content.
So…
Today’s progress was just a handful of small fixes and tweaks, but these little details will make the site richer over time.
