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Piya Gehi ☛ Switching from Jekyll to Hugo
I switched from Jekyll to Hugo as my static site generator of choice recently. The only reason I have a Ruby environment is for this site, so moving from that to a single binary looked appealing.
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[Old] Ryan Gibb ☛ How This Site Is Build
I started off writing plain HTML, then switching to writing in markdown and using pandoc to convert to HTML, and gradually accumulated bash scripts and makefiles to add more functionality, such as generating an Atom feed. This became unmaintainable and at the start of 2025 I overhauled it to use the Hakyll static site generator There’s a few drafts in the git repository which I don’t want to make public yet, so I include the source code used to generate this website below. It’s quite particular to my needs – Hakyll give you a big bag of tools which you can compose in your own way – but it may be useful as a reference.