Feb 19 · 6 min read · Most of my blog posts are lessons learned. I'm trying to achieve something, and I document the process I used to do it. This one is one of the few where, in the end, I didn't achieve what I wanted. In this post, I aim to explain what I learned from t...
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Jul 27, 2025 · 1 min read · Insane Hugo Pipeline for Arch Linux Inspired by NetworkChuck’s I started a blog…..in 2024 (why you should too) video. The guide is here: https://hugo.insanelogs.xyz/posts/hugo-pipeline/ I made a test Hugo website myself using the same guide. So I...
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Sep 14, 2024 · 3 min read · I've been trying out some documentation site generator tools out there and I tried 3 of them to test. These were not randomly chosen but picked 3 from a lot after reading about many of the ones there are online. This is for a product documentation at...
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Nov 18, 2022 · 23 min read · Lume is a new static site generator based on Deno. Deno is a JavaScript-based run-time environment that supports TypeScript. Lume is not built around any specific language. It supports Markdown, Nunjucks, TypeScript, and JavaScript by default. Lume ...
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Sep 6, 2022 · 29 min read · What is Eleventy? Eleventy (also called 11ty) is a simple yet powerful static site generator. It uses JavaScript to transform data and templates into HTML pages. It’s beginner-friendly, has fast build times, and generates fast sites by default. It al...
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Aug 30, 2022 · 5 min read · I recently decided to switch Boot.dev's blog from WordPress to a static site generator. I decided on Hugo, partly because I’m a huge fan of the Go programming language, but also because it just seemed like the best option from a dev-experience perspe...
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Feb 8, 2021 · 8 min read · A while ago I wanted to create a dark theme for my personal site. So I did some clicking around to find out the most suitable and clean way to do this. I read Max Bock's article on creating a custom theme, where he explained the process quite clearly...
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Jan 29, 2021 · 12 min read · By Aaron Katz I wanted to set up a fun project for myself to learn some new technologies. And this time I decided I wanted to learn a bit about Static Site Generators (SSGs). My goal was to build a blog using an SSG and have it deploy any time the co...
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Nov 18, 2020 · 6 min read · Static websites are as old as the web itself. But the rise of JavaScript has opened the door to make those static sites more dynamic. While that can include building an HTML file by hand, how can we leverage static generation to build apps with mode...
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Apr 27, 2020 · 13 min read · In this article, we'll compare the nuances of creating themes for the top two static site generators. I recently took on the task of creating a documentation site theme for two projects. Both projects needed the same basic features, but one uses Jeky...
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