Building a Blog

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 21:44:36 -0700

Creating a blog is easy enough if you want to use something like Weebly or Wix, but I’m the kind of person who wants such granular control over everything that I would rather create a blog programmatically than have something else do it for me. On the plus side, I get to flex my programming skills while having something to show off that isn’t professionally related.

As a site generator, Hugo is actually quite nice. It’s versatile, but it doesn’t get in your way. In some sense, it’s actually the perfect site generator. The only real holdup is how difficult it seems to be to make your own theme from scratch, but that’s why the community has made so many themes. You can then just overwrite whatever bits you want and Hugo does the rest.

The name is a little eh *hand waves*, in my opinion. Not a huge fan of it, if only because Hugo’s never been a name to fully appeal to me.

If your name is Hugo, don’t take that as an offence. Just means I won’t name my own kid Hugo.

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Building a Blog