Site Generator Migration and Markdown Files

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I recently migrated my personal site from Hugo to Lume, the fast and flexible static site generator for Deno! As I'm not a very active publisher, it was quite easy to port my small collection of old blog posts to the new site, as they were initially authored in Markdown with relatively consistent metadata. Using Lume's handy _data feature, which allows you to specify data that should be applied to all files in a directory, I was able to get things set up and organized with ease. This migration has prompted me to think about data longevity and how consistent file structures aid tremendously in the long term. For now, I'm very excited to have my personal site running on Lume. In fact, I was an early Lume adopter, likely among its first users. I've used it extensively to document processes at work. It's too bad it took me this long to port over my personal site. Thanks to Lume, and especially its author, Óscar Otero, I have a fast blog built with an awesome tool! The current base template for this site is, in fact, an official Lume theme!