About Hugo

The Site

This site is made with Hugo. Hugo is a static site engine. There was a time when all web pages were static. Content management systems (CMS) arrived on the scene, these database-driven systems changed much of that.

Content management systems relieve a person of a lot of the design work that goes into a site, but I’ve always liked creating static pages. With Hugo, I get to keep my static pages and it helps with the site’s creation to boot. Not only that, I can write my pages in Markdown and Hugo converts them to HTML (although I can create pages with HTML if I want).

Hugo

Hugo makes use of a variety of open source projects including:

• Cobra
• Viper
• J Walter Weatherman
• Cast

Some fun facts about Hugo:

• Built in Go
• Loosely inspired by Jekyll
• Primarily developed by spf13 on the train while commuting to and from Manhattan.
• Coded in Vim using spf13-vim

Learn more and contribute on GitHub.