muxup-site VS homepage

On https://muxup.com/ you should see pastel-coloured randomly drawn 'roguh' highlights for the site title and for the titles of individual articles. If you mouse over, they'll be redrawn while your mouse is hovering. If you're on mobile, you won't see that, and that's fine. It worked just fine on Android (FF or Chrome) and iPhone last time I checked, but do let me know if you're not seeing that.

It's really very simple, just thought the distillation of the 'rough' drawing technique to a couple of dozen lines of code for this use case might be of interest to some.

I can recommend writing a short script to test redirects and cache control are configured as expected for your site - here's mine (health warning: shell script) https://github.com/muxup/muxup-site/blob/main/utils/server_t...

I link to something I've written in a conversation if it's relevant (like this - my blog is https://muxup.com/), and post articles to HN, lobste.rs, or an appropriate subreddit if no-one else does and I think it's relevant to people there.

I've also found that a custom-written generator is surprisingly productive. My own attempt is at https://github.com/muxup/muxup-site/blob/main/build.py and I wrote up a few notes on it here https://muxup.com/2022q3/muxup-implementation-notes#site-gen....

See my implementation notes post for more technical detail (which also links to the site source).

I've been loving Hugo. I built https://utilitarianism.net/ with it https://github.com/whyboris/utilitarianism.net

For my personal and dev sites I used to use Gatsby, but migrated to Hugo just this month: https://github.com/whyboris/homepage & https://github.com/whyboris/homepage-dev

I'm pleased with how little boilerplate Hugo actually needs. My personal websites have so few files to maintain / worry over :)

I had a small personal homepage with about 20 posts / articles on WordPress. A few years back I migrated to Gasby (to learn how it works; migration was easy) and it was nice (see migration guide I wrote [0]; see old repo [1]). After learning Hugo for a pro-bono project I was doing I decided to migrate my website again (see repo [2]); it was super easy and so much nicer (Gatsby boot up time & build time is like 20 seconds, Hugo is sub-second for both).

TL;DR: Hugo is amazing for static websites and blogs. I host mine on Vercel and it auto-builds to my production TLD in under 5 seconds.[3]

[0] https://dev.to/whyboris/migrating-wordpress-to-gatsby-in-3-s...

[1] https://github.com/whyboris/yboris.com

[2] https://github.com/whyboris/homepage

[3] https://yboris.com/