In this series I talk about why blogging is different from pubilshing on other mediums and the movitivation behind it. How Hugo works and its high level. How to style your post with Hugo and lesser discussed notes about blogging.
Markdown Your posts can be formatted using markdown syntax. It’s critical to know how it works. It’s super simple.
Frontmatter You can add tags: [swift, json, network call] and it will then add the tags to your post. Add showToc: true and will show a table of contents for your post. Hugo automatically takes the first 70 words of your content as its summary and stores it into the ....
This is the 2nd post of “Everything I learned from blogging with Hugo” series
Why Hugo? Hugo is a Static Site Generator. Key is the word “static”. It means: A static website is made up of one or more HTML webpages that load the same way every time. Static websites contrast with dynamic websites, which load differently based on any number of changing data inputs, such as the user’s location, the time of day, or user actions....
This is the 1st post of “Everything I learned from blogging with Hugo” series
I started blogging in Dec 2021. It’s been a wonderful journey. Has enabled me to gather my thoughts in a far more structured way. The series is based on my setup of Hugo - Netlify - GitHub. I’ll shared my knowledge in terms of Hugo knowledge, how to write a blog post and more. If anyone is interested in the Netlify setup, see Hugo Quick Start then Netlify - Hugo setup....