Finally set up Hugo for a static blog to track ongoing projects and ideas.

Here’s a short note on setup:

  • Hugo vs Quartz
    • Quartz is impressive with Obsidian integration and knowledge graphs, but felt intimidating. Decided to keep it simple for now with Hugo.
    • I can always port over later
  • Using the very popular PaperMod theme. Another candidate was Terminal.
  • Deployment: I wanted to use GitHub pages, but that requires publishing from a public repo. Since I may have draft posts that I’d like to keep private, that was a non-starter. Using Cloudflare Pages instead.

TODOs:

  • Fill out profile/home page
  • Start adding posts!

Other notes:

  • Mostly resisting the urge to generate posts with LLMs. I want to keep this organic and ramble-y. Shorter posts like this one will just be a brain dump, while longer posts will be written with reference to some LLM generated notes.