My old blog fell by the wayside when Drupal started having so many security flaws that managing the site was taking a large amount of time from my work day. I have wanted to have a place to post my findings in software development, new utility programs that I find useful and so on, but setting up a full content management system again seemed to simply be an exercise in busywork.

However, with the rise in popularity of static site generators, I thought I would give it a go again. A static site generator promises to make it easy to add content and “build” the site and then publish nothing but HTML with styling, instead of managing a database, PHP or other active code backend and keeping on top of the upgrades and security patches.

I had already converted my old Drupal content to HTML, but getting started with a generator wasn’t as simple as it would seem, if only because it seemed every node.js based manager would download and then give a laundry list of obsolete packages or other minor issues.

This blog is powered by Hugo and so far the setup and configuration of a theme has been exactly as the documentation promised. It is hosted in Azure as a Static Website.