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| title | date | draft |
|---|---|---|
| Migrating to Hugo | 2017-10-24T20:30:43-04:00 | true |
The migration is complete! I made the decision in the past week to move away from Middleman (sorry Middleman) and pick up a new blogging platform with more hutzpah. I've read several articles and posts about Hugo and heard that it is an absolute blast to work with. How simple is it would you say? So simple that all I really did was install Hugo, download a theme, configure that theme and BOOM here I am writing content on my new platform.
Hugo makes the boring stuff easy. I did not have to write any HTML or CSS. The Hugo theme author has literally done all of this for me. Yoshiharu if I ever get the chance to meet you, I owe you. This theme is beautiful and is exactly the look I wanted my personal site to display. Hugo also builds sites in milliseconds. Using the new and shiny Golang, Hugo is able to churn through a site render in <1ms per page. This is extraordinary. Development changes and builds are nearly instantly completed, and the speed of the build never ceases to amaze.
Getting Hugo on Fedora
My Hugo setup is currently on a Fedora 27 laptop. I wanted to share some of the steps I followed to get Hugo up and running, hopefully to help some other developer out there that may not be the best at front-end development get their ideas heard.
Snapcraft
Snapcraft and snaps are a method of package management created by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Snaps are a means of isolating applications in a self-contained environment that includes everything that the application needs to runs. Once you have downloaded the Hugo snap, you will be able to start working with Hugo.