Hugo

This is how derek.engineer is wired: static Hugo site, PaperMod theme, Netlify deploys, Squarespace DNS, and a local writing workflow that keeps publishing from becoming its own project. The stack Hugo — static site generator, fast builds, zero frontend dependencies PaperMod — clean Hugo theme, installed as a git submodule Netlify — deploys on every push to main, custom domain + SSL handled automatically GitHub — source of truth, all posts are Markdown files in content/posts/ The flow is simple: ...

derekwelty.com was a Bootstrap 5 single-page site built on the Start Bootstrap Freelancer template. It worked, but it hadn’t been touched in years and updating it required wading through jQuery, a Gulp pipeline, and a bunch of hand-rolled CSS. Time to replace it. The new stack: Hugo with the Congo theme, deployed to GitHub Pages via GitHub Actions. Why Hugo I already run this blog on Hugo + PaperMod via Netlify. The toolchain was familiar, the build times are fast, and Congo gave me a clean profile layout that actually looked like a personal site and not a blog template with the posts removed. ...