Why?

The beginning of trouble

On my previous site, I had written my own frontmatter interpreter to make blogging easy. I did not like the complexity or feel that existing options like wordpress provided, and I did not Google much longer than 30 seconds to see if the tool I was looking for already existed. So I had coded one, from scratch… That went predictably horribly and I had to continually make changes just to accomodate new features I didn’t think of initially.

Then I met Hugo, well more specifically I saw some other sites that were built with Hugo, which made me look more into the customizability that Hugo provides, being able to easily get my site up and running and just add what I want without much effort.

Design decisions

Now a few issues did pop up, notably: I want to post photographs I take, this without using a CDN or anything else that costs money. Ironic considering this endeavor timewise now will have cost more, but like the great saying goes: “I didn’t do it because it was easy, I did it because I thought it was easy.”

The pictures I take I needed to compress while still keeping it lightweight and easy, I did nothing special for this other than compressing them and converting them for WEBP’s for performance sake.

The result

The result is what you see infront of you, the site itself I chose to be simple, I did not want visual clutter and I just wanted a distraction-less place to post my thoughts, photographs or anything else I wish.

I can write my posts in a single md file, and just call it a day. The convenience of modern technology truly shows me the shoulders of the greats I sit up-on.