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+# ---> Hugo
+# Generated files by hugo
+/public/
+/resources/_gen/
+/assets/jsconfig.json
+hugo_stats.json
+
+# Executable may be added to repository
+hugo.exe
+hugo.darwin
+hugo.linux
+
+# Temporary lock file while building
+/.hugo_build.lock
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+[submodule "themes/hugo-bearcub"]
+	path = themes/hugo-bearcub
+	url = https://github.com/clente/hugo-bearcub
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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-# freed.place
+# Freed.place
+heya! welcome to my personal website! this site is build using Hugo and can be easily deployed for yourself.
 
-
-Freed.place, a cozy little place on the world wide web. https://freed.place
+## wait... where's the old site?
+the old version of [freed.place](https://freed.place) is hosted at [codeberg](https://codeberg.org/FreedTapestry21/freed.place).
+please take a look there for older versions of this site.
+please note that these older versins do not make use of hugo, and instead are built with pure html and css code. 
+
+## License
+The license which this project uses is located at `LICENSE`.
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++++
+date = '{{ .Date }}'
+draft = true
+title = '{{ replace .File.ContentBaseName "-" " " | title }}'
++++
diff --git a/content.nl/_index.md b/content.nl/_index.md
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+---
+title: "Thuis"
+menu: "main"
+weight: 1
+---
+
+# Wij zijn zo terug!
+Freed.place is op dit moment aan het verbouwen. Probeer het over een paar uur nog eens!
diff --git a/content/_index.md b/content/_index.md
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+---
+title: "Home"
+menu: "main"
+weight: 1
+---
+
+# Be right back!
+Freed.place is undergoing construction. Please try again in a few hours!
diff --git a/hugo.toml b/hugo.toml
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+# Basic config
+baseURL = "https://freed.place"
+theme = "hugo-bearcub"
+copyright = "Copyright (c) 2025 FreedTapestry21"
+defaultContentLanguage = "en"
+
+# Generate a nice robots.txt for SEO
+enableRobotsTXT = true
+
+# Setup syntax highlighting without inline styles. For more information about
+# why you'd want to avoid inline styles, see
+# https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Security-Policy/style-src#unsafe_inline_styles
+[markup]
+  [markup.highlight]
+    lineNos = true
+    lineNumbersInTable = false
+    # This allows Bear Cub to use a variation of Dracula that is more accessible
+    # to people with poor eyesight. For more information about color contrast
+    # and accessibility, see https://web.dev/color-and-contrast-accessibility/
+    noClasses = false
+
+# Multilingual mode config. More for information about how to setup translation,
+# see https://gohugo.io/content-management/multilingual/
+[languages]
+  [languages.en]
+    title = "Freed's place"
+    languageName = "en-GB 🇬🇧"
+    LanguageCode = "en-GB"
+    contentDir = "content"
+    [languages.en.params]
+      madeWith = "Made with [Bear Cub](https://github.com/clente/hugo-bearcub)"
+  [languages.nl]
+    title = "Freed's place"
+    languageName = "nl-NL 🇳🇱"
+    LanguageCode = "nl-NL"
+    contentDir = "content.nl"
+    [languages.nl.params]
+      madeWith = "Gemaakt met [Bear Cub](https://github.com/clente/hugo-bearcub)"
+
+[params]
+  # The description of your website
+  description = "A cozy place on a wild web"
+
+  # The path to your favicon
+  favicon = "icons/favicon.png"
+
+  # These images will show up when services want to generate a preview of a link
+  # to your site. Ignored if `generateSocialCard = true`. For more information
+  # about previews, see https://gohugo.io/templates/internal#twitter-cards and
+  # https://gohugo.io/templates/internal#open-graph
+  images = ["images/share.webp"]
+
+  # This title is used as the site_name on the Hugo's internal opengraph
+  # structured data template
+  title = "Freed's place"
+
+  # Dates are displayed following the format below. For more information about
+  # formatting, see https://gohugo.io/functions/format/
+  dateFormat = "02-01-2006 15:04"
+
+  # If your blog is multilingual but you haven't translated a page, this theme
+  # will create a disabled link. By setting `hideUntranslated` to true, you can
+  # have the theme simply not show any link
+  hideUntranslated = false
+
+  # (EXPERIMENTAL) This theme has two options for its CSS styles: "original" and
+  # "herman". The former is what you see on Bear Cub's demo (an optimized
+  # version of Hugo Bear Blog), while the latter has a more modern look based on
+  # Herman Martinus's version of the Blogster Minimal theme for Astro.
+  themeStyle = "original"
+
+  # (EXPERIMENTAL) This theme is capable of dynamically generating social cards
+  # for posts that don't have `images` defined in their front matter; By setting
+  # `generateSocialCard` to false, you can prevent this behavior. For more
+  # information see layouts/partials/social_card.html
+  generateSocialCard = true
+
+  # Social media. Delete any item you aren't using to make sure it won't show up
+  # in your website's metadata.
+  [params.social]
+    twitter = "freedtapestry21" # Twitter handle (without '@')
+
+  # Author metadata. This is mostly used for the RSS feed of your site, but the
+  # email is also added to the footer of each post. You can hide the "reply to"
+  # link by using a `hideReply` param in front matter.
+  [params.author]
+    name = "FreedTapestry21" # Your name as shown in the RSS feed metadata
+    email = "freedtapestry21@pixelated.sh" # Added to the footer so readers can reply to posts
+
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+Subproject commit c3286b77b8e2a1222ec4afe74036530ffb905a13