A few months ago, my blogdown-based blogs started giving me a few headaches, after more than seven years of remarkably reliable service. After doing some research on the web and consulting a few AI assistants, it became clear that the main issue was the theme, which had not been updated for quite some time and had started to show incompatibilities with recent versions of the Hugo static site generator.
It did not seem likely that the theme would receive further updates, as the project appeared to have been abandoned. At that point, I had two options: migrate to a new Hugo theme or port the entire blog to Quarto. Since updating the theme would probably have required an amount of work comparable to migrating the whole website, I decided to give Quarto a try. After a few experiments, I was pleasantly surprised: Quarto proved to be flexible, logical, and easy to understand—even for an old dinosaur like me.
I soon discovered that most of the existing posts could be migrated with relatively little effort. Nevertheless, I decided to take this opportunity to review all the old posts, checking them carefully and updating or expanding them wherever necessary. This process will take some time, but I hope to complete it before the start of the new academic semester.
In the meantime, if you happen to find missing posts, broken links, or other glitches, please forgive me and feel free to send me a message using the email address below.
Thank you very much for your patience. Please stay tuned—and don’t forget to have a look at my new book!
Prof. Andrea Onofri
Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences
University of Perugia (Italy)
Send comments to: andrea.onofri@unipg.it
