hugo

if you want to get into blogging, want to retain control of your content, and don’t want to write something from scratch, a static site generator is a pretty good way to get this done.

there have been many static site generators in the history of the web, one of the first being dreamweaver for flash, but the current best of class is jekyll. the model established by jekyll is a collection of markdown files, a series of templates, and bit of code to plumb it all together. jekyll is implemented in ruby, and as such wants various ruby package management software to be installed for it to work. as you may have intuited from the fact that this post is not titled “jekyll”, I do not use it.