Migrating to Hugo

A New Start

Over the years, I’ve built a few different personal websites for myself. I’ve used React, Go, and most recently Python and Django. It’s always been a rewarding experience learning about web development and having a public-facing site to show for it at the end of the day. Recently, I’ve mostly been using my site as a blog, which is why I picked Django as a framework. While Django is very powerful, it’s probably more than I need for my personal site. I don’t particularly enjoy using Python, and I only occasionally need to make changes to my website. As a result I often find myself relearning things when it’s time to update things.

So in comes Static Site Generation. There are lots of options for SSG, but I have heard good things about Hugo. I love the idea of only needing to concern myself with Markdown and letting Hugo do the rest of the work for me. These days my programming focus is turned fully towards mobile development and a bit of backend. I’m hoping to write a bit more regularly about my journey, especially with the ease of simply using markdown in a text editor.

So here’s to new beginnings in the new year! I plan to fill this blog with mostly programming-related posts, but maybe a book review or two will fit in.

• Updates