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100% agree. These factors are generalized and without context. The context you bring is essential to making the right decision. The next post I'm writing is all about how to apply …

Hi HN, author here. While reading Franklin's autobiography, I was completely struck by the systematic, almost algorithmic way he taught himself to write. He designed a process of c…

I never intended this statement to be taken as if I built these alone. Thanks for this candid feedback. Perhaps a more accurate wording is: "You may know me from helping to build t…

I built and led the team that was responsible for the MongoDB user experience. We designed and built MongoDB's integrations with programming languages & third party systems (Drupal…

Thank you!

I can confirm it's quite accurate. I've been the person responsible for these metrics the entire time cited.

A couple of the Go authors did a lot of the initial coding and continue to code in Acme (rsc, r). The broader Go team use a wider variety: Vim, Emacs, Goland, and VSCode are the mo…

I did this exact thing when I got frustrated with Jekyll (and friends) and created Hugo. Of course, at the time all SSGs were in dynamic languages and very VERY slow. Happy to see …

This is the first. There have been several designs previously, each of which was refined based on feedback, culminating in this proposal.

I didn't. I'm shocked how awful these ads are. I've turned it off completely.

Disclaimer: I am the creator of Hugo. Trying to provide an impartial perspective here for the readers. Everyone has different needs and tastes so no tool works for everyone. Here's…

Disclaimer. I am the author of Hugo and former exec at Docker. I don't speak for Docker and I've been gone for over a year so the following is at best a guess. From my reading of t…

This is surprising and counter to what most others are experiencing. Many of the performance optimizations have tradeoffs and while they increase performance for the majority of ca…

Thanks for this feedback. We are striving to make the docs as good as we can. We would love to hear more about your experience so we can improve the docs further.

Hugo is not blog oriented and works well with any site structure. A good way to a lot of different ways of how people are using Hugo is with the site showcase. http://gohugo.io/sho…

It can optionally use python-pygments for syntax highlighting. It's not a requirement and as you mention alternatives are available.

Hugo provides many of the same features of Harp.js which is also a good project. Hugo provides a server for local development like jade. Hugo is a bit easier to install as it doesn…

Currently hugo has not focused on this aspect of development and many people have found success combining Hugo with Gulp. There are a few projects related to this that make it pret…

Hugo is built is a way that virtually everything you would want to do with a static site generator is configurable without go or recompilation. Smashing Mag had a good write up exp…