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Came here to say Hugo is the correct answer for a Personal Developer blog, unless you're using it to showcase your skills in a particular technology, at least i

Came here to say Hugo is the correct answer for a Personal Developer blog, unless you're using it to showcase your skills in a particular technology, at least in my experience. Finally dived into Hugo and it's just so easy to get going with making Markdown content and turning it into a static site with one of the themes from their gallery. There's a bit of a rabbit hole to go down if you want to get more custom than that, but it's extremely customizable and you can learn a lot about how to do so just looking at the source code from themes in the gallery. The only tech I really have to worry about is HTML, CSS, Markdown, and a little bit of template scripting for ranges and reading variables from the config files, if I want to customize the theme. I've gotten excited about building my personal website again because I don't have to screw around with the technology hardly at all, I can focus on just making content. Which is what you want for a personal site. You don't want a bunch of friction slowing you down from actually getting content out there. I don't have to worry about dependency hell with Hugo either, it's just an executable.

fossuser 6y ago
How do you host your site? I've been using Github Pages which has Jekyll support and that's worked fine, but I'm curious where people host their Hugo sites (or how hosting works when you run the server yourself). Is it AWS? Dreamhost? or something else? Do you have to manage a proxy or handle load/cost spikes? Can a surge of traffic take down the site? I haven't read a ton about this, but I'm curious about it. It'd be neat to have full control over my own publishing if something ever happened to github pages.
- nickysielicki 6y ago
  That's the beauty of a static site generator -- github just expects valid HMTL to be generated and pushed to a specific branch. Github has no more Jekyll support than it has support for Hugo or a custom static site generator written in bash. I host my hugo-based blog with github pages.
  - fossuser 6y ago
    Ah ok - I think I understand. Github does have special Jekyll support, but you just generate the hugo static files locally and only push those up to where Github expects them to be? I think with Jekyll Github will re-generate the static files for you and works with the RSS plugin automatically. Good to know though - might be worth checking out Hugo, thanks!
    - nickysielicki 6y ago
      Huh, I didn't know that Github had that sort of integration. I'm surprised that they're willing to run arbitrary ruby like that.
- cableshaft 6y ago
  I haven't actually made it live yet, but it's just a static site once it's generated. I'll either push it to my github pages (probably what I'll do), or I'll upload it to my webhost, which I also have (but has been dormant for awhile).

fossuser 6y ago

How do you host your site? I've been using Github Pages which has Jekyll support and that's worked fine, but I'm curious where people host their Hugo sites (or how hosting works when you run the server yourself). Is it AWS? Dreamhost? or something else? Do you have to manage a proxy or handle load/cost spikes? Can a surge of traffic take down the site? I haven't read a ton about this, but I'm curious about it. It'd be neat to have full control over my own publishing if something ever happened to github pages.

nickysielicki 6y ago
That's the beauty of a static site generator -- github just expects valid HMTL to be generated and pushed to a specific branch. Github has no more Jekyll support than it has support for Hugo or a custom static site generator written in bash. I host my hugo-based blog with github pages.
- fossuser 6y ago
  Ah ok - I think I understand. Github does have special Jekyll support, but you just generate the hugo static files locally and only push those up to where Github expects them to be? I think with Jekyll Github will re-generate the static files for you and works with the RSS plugin automatically. Good to know though - might be worth checking out Hugo, thanks!
  - nickysielicki 6y ago
    Huh, I didn't know that Github had that sort of integration. I'm surprised that they're willing to run arbitrary ruby like that.
cableshaft 6y ago
I haven't actually made it live yet, but it's just a static site once it's generated. I'll either push it to my github pages (probably what I'll do), or I'll upload it to my webhost, which I also have (but has been dormant for awhile).