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Retiring WordPress – How I Migrated fryguy.net to Hugo (With an AI Pair Programmer)

Fryguy — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0000

This site has run on WordPress since basically forever. As of this week, it doesn’t anymore. Everything you’re reading is now a static Hugo site, built from Markdown, served by nginx, with no PHP and no database anywhere in the stack. Here’s why I did it, what actually moved, and how I used Claude Code as a pair programmer for most of the heavy lifting.

Why bother

Let’s be honest about how it got this bad: I didn’t keep up with it. I know. Servers don’t rot on their own — you stop patching them, stop upgrading them, and a few years later you’re staring at a stack that’s aged out from under you. The old droplet had quietly rotted underneath a site that still worked fine. Ubuntu 18.04 — EOL since 2023. PHP 7.4 — EOL since 2022, with no apt-upgrade path to anything newer (the PPA I’d have needed was frozen). MySQL 5.7 — also EOL. WordPress itself was current; everything under it wasn’t, and there was no clean patching path left, just a slow accumulation of risk on a box facing the public internet.

SecureCRT to SuperPutty – Migrate Your Sessions with One Python Script

Fryguy — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

If you’ve ever had to move a large session library from SecureCRT to SuperPutty, you know the pain — there’s no built-in migration path, and manually re-entering dozens (or hundreds) of sessions is a miserable afternoon. I wrote SCRT_2_SPUTTY to handle it automatically. Point it at your SecureCRT XML export, and it spits out a ready-to-import SuperPutty XML file. No third-party libraries, no configuration files — just Python and a single command.

UniFi Network Health Report – Open Source Python Tool (v1.0.0)

Fryguy — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:50:09 +0000

If you run a self-hosted Ubiquiti UniFi network — whether it’s a home lab, small business, or multi-site setup — you know the UniFi dashboard is great for real-time monitoring but falls short when you want a clean summary you can save, share, or review later. I built UniFi Network Health Report to fill that gap: a Python tool that connects to your controller and generates a standalone HTML report covering everything that matters.