Chris Wiegman
Tech leader, mentor, blogger, and open-source advocate with over 20 years of experience building humane, privacy-focused teams and technology.
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Latest posts
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Enabling URL Support in macOS Terminal.app with tmux
How to restore right-click URL opening in macOS Terminal.app when using tmux for panes.
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I'm Still with Apple in 2026... and That's OK
Why I keep coming back to Apple's ecosystem despite the annual urge to switch, and what actually keeps me there in 2026.
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I Miss Teaching
Reflecting on what I miss about teaching, both in the classroom and in the cockpit as a flight instructor.
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Experimenting with AI: How I use it in 2026
I love writing code. I’ve always loved writing code. That said, writing code is no longer part of my day job. Today my job is to build my teams and help push our engineering org forward, a very different role that requires a different toolset. In 2026 part of that, whether I…
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Why Resetting my Music Library was the Right Move
Why I wiped a two-thousand-album music library this year and what I'm building in its place.
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My Hugo Theme Continues to Evolve
A high-level look back at what's changed in my Hugo theme, Kana, since I moved this site back to Hugo late last year.
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Why I Still Bother with RSS in 2026
Why I switched RSS readers again, and why RSS, not social media algorithms, is still the best way to keep up with the sites that actually matter to me in 2026.
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Battling Link Rot on a Hugo Site
Using Lychee both locally and on GitHub to stay on top of link rot on a Hugo site.
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You Don't Need the DuckDuckGo noai Subdomain
There’s a lot of hype about accessing DuckDuckGo via its “noai” subdomain. It works, but there’s a better way. Instead of using a special domain to access DuckDuckGo, a method that works, but not in every situation, you can just use the normal DuckDuckGo domain, without AI and…
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Backing Up All My GitHub Code
A simple command line tool for backing up all your public and private GitHub repos.
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A Digital Reset
Every once in a while, I reset my digital life. It’s a habit that goes back to 2010, when I first cleared my Twitter post history, and over time it has grown in scope. My latest reset was this past week. Why Cleaning Up Online Is Good For Me There are a lot of reasons I…
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Basic Stats for This Site
After publishing on this site for the last two months I realized there is something I’m missing, basic stats. It might be vanity, but I really do find it useful to know which pages are actually getting traffic and what content people seem to care about. This isn’t the type of…
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You Probably Don’t Need a Content Management System
You Probably don’t need a full content management system. Just six months ago I didn’t believe that myself and it caused me to make the mistake of moving this site back to WordPress . It’s true though. The thing is most sites aren’t really managing content at all, at least not…
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Travel for Work and Pleasure
Saturday night we returned home from our first vacation in almost 3 years. Our last trip, to Porto in 2023 , was more of a fact-finding trip in hopes that we could move abroad. Unfortunately life had a different idea and my mom passed away a few weeks after we got home, changing…
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Better Taxonomy Management for Hugo with VS Code
Learn how to maintain consistent Hugo categories and tags using VS Code snippets and autocomplete for better content organization.
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Time To Move
I might be a bit quiet here for the next few weeks. We’re not moving house again, but I do get to leave the house for a bit. Next week I’ll be in Athens, Greece for our annual company all-hands. It’s a new country for me with a company I haven’t been at too long and I’m really…
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On Writing and AI
For all the work I’ve done on improving my Hugo workflow, there’s one thing automation can’t do. Automation can’t write for me. I know, I know… AI is all the rage and I could find some agent to put out slop on this site, but that is precisely what I build this site to avoid.…
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One Month Back on Hugo - It Was the Right Move
Reflections on using Hugo, one month after I moved this site back to it from WordPress.
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Preparing for Cleanup
In 2021 I decided to start posting on this site 3 days a week . For the most part that strategy has worked well. It’s been something I enjoy and I’ve created a lot of content in doing so. Some of my posts, however, have been anything but “quality.” When times were tough I would…
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Automating Sustainable Draft Post Creation in Hugo
I’ve had a much better experience blogging with Hugo since coming back to the platform last month . Most of this is due to some automation I’ve added to help make drafting posts, and publishing those drafts, easier. Last week I talked about deploying this site to Cloudflare…