I’m Mohamed — an Islamic studies educator, curriculum developer, and homelab enthusiast based in Woodbury, MN. I write about teaching, self-hosting, and the occasional tech rabbit hole.
Why I Switched from WordPress to Hugo
After wrestling with WordPress — empty database backups, MySQL containers that wouldn’t start after a restart, and the constant drip of plugin update notifications — I decided enough was enough. What was wrong with WordPress The immediate trigger was trying to restore a site for a friend. The backup had two files: a .sql dump and a tar.gz of the WordPress files. Both were empty shells. The backup script had run successfully every night against volumes that were never actually populated. ...