I’ve used Jekyll as a static site generator ever since I created this blog, which was in 2013. Before that, I had tried few other blogging platforms. Over the past few years when I irregularly updated my blog, I faced some friction with Jekyll. Every time I tried to make a new post and push to GitHub, Jekyll would complain about something that’s either deprecated or broken. And, I had to go fix that first and then make a blog post and push it. That was a minor annoyance mostly due to the fact that I hardly touched my blog and things got outdated. But what annoyed me more than anything is the slowness of Jekyll to build the site and start the server. It was taking a good 10 seconds for it to build the entire site (which consisted of less than 30 files) and serve it on localhost.
Hugo
indieweb.orgHugo is a static site generator written in Go used by several people in the IndieWeb community to run their personal sites. It is designed to build a site based on markdown files with header information in YAML, TOML or JSON. It uses Go templates and compiles a full site very rapidly. No built-in IndieWeb support, but adding microformats to templates is relatively straightforward.
Moving to Hugo
My Blogging Pursuit with Hugo and WordPress
Explore my blogging journey with Hugo and WordPress CMS. Learn about webrings, IndieWeb, and why I’m making BurgeonLab my primary blog.