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I’ve been holding off of blogging for a long time, because on the one hand I don’t like the idea of having my content locked up in some third-party system I don’t have control over, and on the other I don’t want to be managing an entire VM as a second job I have to pay for.

Enter static site generators.

Now, I know static site generators have been around a while but they were all Node-based, and my skepticism of Node meant I didn’t want to go down that rabbit hole. Hugo is a Go CLI tool so it’s a single static binary that’s easy to install and manage.

I’ve put very little effort into learning Hugo – this blog and its hosting were thrown together in a single evening – because that’s the whole point; I wanted to blog, not pfaff around with the intricacies of Yet Another CMS Framework. I already know how to install Wordpress.

So far I’m enjoying the experience, as I prefer Markdown for editing and the likelihood I’m ever going to want to blog from my phone is basically zero.