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Ask HN: What's your blog / portfolio stack?
Hugo! I stick with Hugo for all things SSG these days. I like how it's a single binary, runs uber-fast, and compiles down to a nice clean set of HTML, CSS, and JS.
My one mark against it is the learning curve is sharp. That's okay for me, since I plan to use it to the end of my days, and so I can amortize the cost of learning it once against many decades of productivity. I have an old GitHub page for people struggling to get to base camp on its learning curve: https://github.com/Siilikuin/minimum-viable-hugo
And here are some sites I run in it:
https://andrew-quinn.me/, my barebones personal blog.
https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/, my much more frequently updated TILs. Think of this as halfway between a blog and Twitter.
https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/selkouutiset-archive/, a daily updating news archive for the Simple Finnish broadcast, happily running since 2023. The pipeline for this one is interesting, since it uses not only Hugo but Git submodules under the hood. One Git repo exists purely to curl the page I'm watching every night, and I try to mess with that one as little as possible because messing up might mean a night goes unarchived. An intermediate one submodules repo #1 and cleans up the HTML to Hugo-friendly Markdown with pandoc and sed. The final one imports this slimmed down, Markdownified version directly into its content/ directory as a Git submodule and redeploys the whole shebang every night. So far we're up to over a thousand unique HTML pages and this refinery has continued to work with only minimal changes, because we've stuck with such reliable and slow-changing tooling.
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WordPress Doesn't Matter for the Future of Web
Agreed. I much prefer to pitch Hugo on the basis of its costs: It takes more knowledge to set up, but it also lets you host your site for free on a ton of places, like GitHub Pages, and that knowledge can be a very useful stepping stone for future devs will are interested in getting more into the web dev space.
That's why I wrote https://github.com/Siilikuin/minimum-viable-hugo way back when - to give myself just enough of a clue of what was going on that I could pick it up from there. Hugo makes an excellent stepping stone between "I know how to write HTML in Notepad" and "I can code up my own little web apps in Django", etc
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Ask HN: What's the simplest static website generator?
Hugo comes out of the box with headers and footers, but you'll probably want to grep around a bit before you understand them fully. I can still recommend my https://github.com/Siilikuin/minimum-viable-hugo as a decent way to get started with a "gears first" approach to Hugo, even though recent developments have made it a bit outdated (in a good way!).
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Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform
I like Hugo a lot, personally.
If you want to go as minimal as possible, my https://github.com/Siilikuin/minimum-viable-hugo gets you set up with a single no-CSS, no-JS HTML page. I found this pretty ideal for staying to learn the platform.
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Blogging Like a Hacker (2008)
I like Hugo. It's been a gateway drug into building more interesting websites than just a blog for me. Giving you RSS feeds out of the box is a lovely bonus.
Both my personal website https://andrew-quinn.me/ and my TIL site run on Hugo: https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/
Most recently I used Hugo to create a backup archive of the Finnish broadcast news, plus translations, which was all in all very easy thanks to its i18n support: https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/selkouutiset-archive/
I even gave a presentation at the local university to first year CS students who wanted to get Hugo up and running. It was a big success!
I wrote https://github.com/Siilikuin/minimum-viable-hugo a while back to turn setting it up into a simple copy-and-paste operation. You might get some use out of it.
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Course for Hugo SSG Incl. CSS and HTML-Templating
Hugo's documentation is rather awful hence explanations like https://github.com/Siilikuin/minimum-viable-hugo or https://dabase.com/e/04066/ I found this course to be a thorough explanation of the required templates, how to style etc. (where CSS and the whole frontend have stayed mysterious to me for years).
- Minimum Viable Hugo – No CSS, no JavaScript, 1 static HTML page to start you off
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