Static Blog Automation

Posted on in Blogging, Hugo

As I’ve written about in the past this blog is powered by Hugo—a static site generator. That’s great and all but it really limits when I can write posts. Something running Hugo needs to build the site and that output needs to be published somewhere. I’ve done a few things to make this process a more automatic. Writing Posts on my MacBook Pro First of all I needed to make it much easier to create a new post.

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Goodbye Octopress, Hello Hugo

Posted on in Blogging, Web Development, Go, Hugo

Over the last month I’ve been using the Go language more and more. It’s a pretty fun language but I often find myself wishing I was writing Swift. I came across this new static engine system that was written in Go and thought I’d try it out. It’s called Hugo. I don’t have anything bad to say about Octopress, and a new version is coming soon. But wow, Hugo is fast. Crazy fast.

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