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Super Powered Blogging With Hugo and GitHub Pages and Actions |
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Nowadays blogging platforms are a dime a dozen. You've got WordPress that is still king, but it's kind of bloated and has plenty of weird gotchas that can lead you down into rabbit holes that lead you to realize there are more than 10 levels of abstraction until you get down to calls to cURL from initiating an HTTP GET request with their API (this is a horrific story, I don't know if I want to think about it any further than that). Sometimes, you want something lean and fast. You're just writing a simple blog for yourself, you don't need a fancy WYSIWYG editor and plugins galore. You could go for a headless SaaS option like Contentful, but that's expensive and even more overkill than WordPress for your needs. Where is something simple?
Static site generators to the rescue! These handy tools are great for building out a simple