Spent a bit of time tonight hacking on a personal website. I used #Hugo as a static site generator, and deployed it using #Netlify. First time using either of these and I am really impressed. Hugo's speed is insane and definitely the biggest draw for me. One of my common complaints is that the web is getting slower even though it should be getting faster. Netlify was dead simple to use, reminds me of the first time I used Heroku back in the day.
Since I still haven't finished the new #Hugo theme I'm developing (too many distractions), I instead opted to backport code improvements and new Hugo modules. Not an easy task since I have to do it for 7 different third-party themes.
As you might have heard, WordPress & Tumblr are supposedly in the process of opening up to the fediverse & ActivityPub. E.g. even now a WordPress admin like @evanprodromou can choose to publish their articles to be viewed directly in your Mastodon feed.
I'm going to be exploring this a lot in my video, so I'd love to know how people feel about it down in the comments. Excited? Ambivalent? Annoyed? Let me know! 👇
Also, here's a quick poll to check how familiar people are with this process.
It is a kind of feeling to deploy a #HUGO site on GitHub Pages while relying on instructions from Hugo, a theme provider, and Medium. On top of this, following the Desolation of Smaug from TV with one eye, and after a full-blast day of parenting.
One's head can be spinning from less.
But after an hour and a half of troubleshooting why my GitHub Action failed, I have now finally updated my personal website. Hooray!