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About

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:38:40 -0700

Hi, I’m Colin Blackman — I work in corporate cybersecurity at Dell Technologies, where I lead engineering efforts for our security platform teams.

Over the years I’ve spent a lot of time on the operational side of enterprise security: building scalable detection and response platforms, automating controls coverage, and aligning engineering outcomes with risk reduction.

This blog is my personal space to document what I’m learning as I dig deeper into Cribl and Elastic — two platforms that are transforming how we move, enrich, and analyze security and observability data.

ChatGPT + Hugo + Cloudflare Pages: Speedrun

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s a speedy workflow for shipping posts with minimal friction:

1) Outline with ChatGPT

Ask ChatGPT to draft an outline for your post. Example prompt:

“Draft a concise outline for a blog post about migrating from WordPress to Hugo. Include an intro, 5 key steps, a short code sample, and an FAQ.”

Copy the outline into a new Markdown file:

hugo new posts/migrating-from-wordpress.md

Set draft: true until you’re ready to publish.

Hugo Basics You’ll Use Every Week

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A quick reference you’ll use constantly:

New content

hugo new posts/my-next-post.md

Edit the file under content/posts/…
Set draft: false to publish.

Local preview

hugo server -D

-D shows drafts.
Live-reload updates as you edit.

Front matter fields

title, date, draft, description, tags, categories.
Add slug to customize the URL.

Static files

Anything in /static is served at the site root. Put images, favicons, etc. there.

Shortcodes

Hugo shortcodes let you embed components inside Markdown. For example:

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hi, I’m Colin Blackman — I work in corporate cybersecurity at Dell Technologies, where I lead engineering efforts for our security platform teams.