Apr 27, 2024
4 min read
My Hugo Site
(#1 of 10)
After years of battling WordPress hacks, rising costs, and home-lab hosting experiments, I’ve decided to reboot my blog with a new approach. Moving from dynamic sites to Hugo’s fast, static simplicity feels like the right balance of security, control, and creativity. A fresh start for sharing tech notes and learning.
Jan 25, 2025
3 min read
My Hugo Site
(#2 of 10)
I’ve embraced Hugo to power my blog, valuing its speed, simplicity, and security over database-driven platforms. Writing in Markdown, version control integration, and easy deployment make it perfect for documenting my journey in cloud, networking, and cybersecurity. Hugo keeps the focus on learning and sharing—not maintenance headaches.
Apr 28, 2025
9 min read
My Hugo Site
(#3 of 10)
I outline the process I used to create a custom Hugo Taxonomy so could have articles ordered into a series. There are a lot of moving parts in getting this to work. Hopefully gets the broad strokes explained with the resources I used to help me.
Aug 21, 2025
3 min read
My Hugo Site
(#4 of 10)
I’m exploring moving out my content from the Hugo site code into a seperate isolated direcrory structure and git repository using git submodules. This should create a cleaner, more focused workflow with independent version histories, making it easier to manage and publish my content.
Sep 25, 2025
6 min read
My Hugo Site
(#5 of 10)
This is how I display the four most recent articles as styled cards on the homepage by extend Hugo functionality using custom shortcodes and calling them in markdown files and CSS.
Sep 27, 2025
6 min read
My Hugo Site
(#6 of 10)
Getting breadcrumbs to work using Hugo shortcodes is doable with some effort and a lot of CSS. But it might not work as expected. Let me explain
Oct 2, 2025
5 min read
My Hugo Site
(#7 of 10)
In implementing a list pagination feature for my site, I pivoted from complex custom code to using Hugo’s robust built-in template. This saved development time, which was better spent styling the default HTML output with custom CSS.
Oct 9, 2025
4 min read
My Hugo Site
(#8 of 10)
How I made external links open in a new tab, added security attributes and appended an icon, without touching Markdown content