Hugo on Robert Terakedis

How to host blog images for free with Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When I migrated this blog to Hugo, I had to figure out where images would live. My original thought was simple enough: store them in the GitHub repo. That worked fine for six months. Then I started thinking about what happens when I have hundreds of posts with images, and the repo turns into a photo dump.

I looked at Cloudflare Images next. It seemed obvious—I'm already paying for Cloudflare for DNS and SSL. But the pricing pushed me away: the transform API costs add up if you're generating variants (WebP, different sizes), and I'd be locking myself into Cloudflare's image manipulation if I ever wanted to migrate. That didn't feel like room to grow.

Ensuring Domain Name Survival

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 21:54:25 -0400

I was listening to the Security Now Podcast the other day, and a GREAT topic came up that I wanted to write about. That topic, as covered by Leo and Steve, involves ownership (specifically registrants) of Domain Name System (DNS) records. I know from past experience, domain "ownership" never seems to be front-of-mind for many folks deciding to start a website. Whether you're simply looking to blog, or starting a new business, the focus tends to be on the outcome ("I have a new website") than the path to get there. In this article, I want to cover some of the common ways domains are registered and how you can protect your domain name should something ever happen.

Change From Beautifulhugo to Clarity Theme

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:24:02 -0500

Since I first started this blog, I was using a theme called BeautifulHugo. The theme was great and for the most part visually appealing. However, there were some changes I was hoping to see made to the theme that never really manifested. I had even contributed back some of my own changes, but it appeared the theme had been abandoned by it's creator. I set about looking for a new theme and stumbled onto hugo-clarity. Not only was this theme visually appealing to me, but I could see regular changes being made to the theme. Yes, a theme still under active maintenance!