Hugo

Before this post, my blog was a self hosted Ghost installation. I hardly update the installation, it’s been at its 0.11.x install for quite a while. It’s not quite straightforward it seems to update to the latest Ghost version. I didn’t want to use MySQL as it’s not needed for my scale, couldn’t get it to work with sqlite3 unfortunately. So I went shopping and immediately liked Hugo. Pre Migration Going to talk more about what led me to Hugo. It started with Pico but was immediately discouraged because the website is not served throught HTTPS and although I have nothing against PHP, it’s still PHP. Dug deeper about static file blogging platforms, wanted a Python alternative to find that it’s not great, it’s too bland for my taste and most importantly it looks old (sorry..). ...