This blog was previously built around Wordpress around 2010. However, things have really changed since then. Storage has become so cheap that it really doesn’t make sense to have a server rendering posts.

There are quite a few options when it comes to static sites. It came down to a choice of three runtimes:

• Ruby (Jekyll)
• Javascript (Hexo)
• Golang (Hugo)

I tried installing Ruby awhile ago, but I kept running into errors. Since I wanted this be really straightforward, and the bad taste was still in my mouth, I decided to pass on Jekyll.

Javascript has NPM, which is really good for some things, but not exactly what I want to depend on over time, as I keep adding pages.

Golang is really nice as Hugo is just a single executable. Installing is really easy, and the dependencies are all inside.

Hugo it is!

This was also a good opportunity for me to cull a lot of posts that just don’t make sense anymore.

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