the one about why I made this blog in Hugo

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It seems that every blog (online diary, journal, self-loving website, etc) that I run across that has been redesigned in Hugo has a post early on about why it was redesigned in Hugo. This seems like a weird thing to do in the wide world of the web, since people are constantly changing the underlying technologies of their website without wasting a lot of time talking about it, but in my case Ima going to do that thing because there is a point to be made about why I have taken the time to do something other than Wordpress. Also, there is something to be said about why I'm doing a blog at all in a year (I won't even bother calling it an ‘age’ or ‘era’ because things will likely shift in the world of editor-less publishing again soon) when everyone else seems to be flocking to Medium or Dev.to or Steemit.

Primarily I'm doing this as part of my practice as an IT professional. Even though this is a public forum and if you're a human other than myself I'm certainly glad you're reading this, I write this blog to keep my own mind in the game. It's a little project that requires a wee bit of technical twiddling and bit of writing on topics that I use in order to make a living, and in all doing this just helps me better at getting paid.

The technical twiddling is valuable because the mechanics of what I have here have some importance to the work I do as a cloud software developer:

  • I'm writing things in Markdown
  • I'm developing the work using the Hugo platform, meaning I have to know keep my eye on this platform and how it works
  • I'm maintaining the work's materials using Git, stored in Github
  • I have some workflow operations happening using TravisCI
  • And ultimately things are publishing on Amazon
  • With Google DNS to top it off

So with all those moving parts I feel like I'm keeping my hands in the toolbox just enough to learn a few things. Wordpress, on the other hand, is a really great publishing platform if you don't really want to know how the sausage is made. Which is fine, but I do want to know how the sausage is made.