Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
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Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
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Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
#2Welcome to the other side!!!
Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
#3I made the jump to Hugo too (from a managed service: svbtle) a long time ago, but I'll be really honest...
I regret it.
I decided to use an off-the-shelf theme, but it didn't quite meet the needs and I forked it; as it so happens Hugo breaks userland relatively often and a complex theme like the one I have requires a lot of maintenance. Like.. a lot.
Now I can't really justify the time investment of fixing it so I just don't post anymore, the site won't even compile. In theory I could use an old version of Hugo, but I have no idea when it broke, so how far do I go back?
So, advice: submit the binary you used to generate the site to source control. I know git isn't the best at binary files, but I promise you'll thank me at some point.
Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
#4I made the jump to Hugo too (from a managed service: svbtle) a long time ago, but I'll be really honest... I regret it. I decided to use an off-the-shelf theme, but it didn't quite meet the needs and I forked it; as it so happens Hugo breaks userland relatively often and a complex theme like the one I have requires a lot of maintenance. Like.. a lot . Now I can't really justify the time investment of fixing it so I j…
What kind of issues? I use my own private theme called Brahma which I wrote from scratch. I keep it simple and has been since 2019. I have barely had any issues.
Given, mine is not sophisticated at all and simple by design. But curious what kind of issues pops up.
Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
#5I made the jump to Hugo too (from a managed service: svbtle) a long time ago, but I'll be really honest... I regret it. I decided to use an off-the-shelf theme, but it didn't quite meet the needs and I forked it; as it so happens Hugo breaks userland relatively often and a complex theme like the one I have requires a lot of maintenance. Like.. a lot . Now I can't really justify the time investment of fixing it so I j…
Sorry to hear it. Always sucks to not be able to tweak your own site.
I’ve had amazing success debugging compile errors with Claude Code.
Perhaps a coding agent could help you get it going again?
Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
#6Out of interest: does anyone know what those three Safari extensions are on Jeff's screenshots?
Edit: thx for answers below!
Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
#7Interesting. I'm currently looking to migrate from Hugo to Zola. Personally I feel like I grok the configuration and templating options for Zola better than I do for Hugo.
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#8Instead of committing the binary, I highly recommend using a .tool-versions file (if you use asdf or mise) or a Dockerfile with a pinned version.
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#9I like Hugo, but I’ve not found a nice workflow to automatically put the images on a CDN.
I was thinking of making a GitHub action that uploaded the image from a given branch, deleted it, set the URL, and finally merged only the md files to main.
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#10Out of interest: does anyone know what those three Safari extensions are on Jeff's screenshots? Edit: thx for answers below!
The looking icon is the Userscripts extension[1]. The one in the middle is for 1Password. The RSS looking icon I'm not sure about.