Software are getting all these smart tools that can do all kind of fancy stuff for a small fee.
I generally like the idea behind it but often a tool ends up being something you’ll have to learn. If you have to spend time learning something why not learn the technology behind it all, so you have more freedom?
I realise that knowing the tool behind it all sometimes still demand a lot of handheld work which you can skip with a tool. I just prefer having simple tools automating the repetitive and hard tasks and then leaving the rest open to use.
Hosting is always a question
There are tons of hosting options out there with a ton of different options.
Many companies normally defaults to either Microsoft or Amazon because they believe they need the capabilities or support. I have not been a place that truly needed anything from them. It might also be something about availability, developer experiences and too big to fail.
I think it is a shame that they don’t try other places.
Hugo as a tool for making a blog
This is my first test with Hugo. So far the response time is incredibly fast and the documentation is really easy to follow along. I am pleasantly surprised that it uses MarkDown files to post pages. This means I can make a vault and edit my posts in Obsidian, which I have grown quite fund of as a note/idea tool.
Issues
I had some trouble getting it to work as a route mathiasegekvist/blog but I am unsure if that is the way hugo is made or the way Digital Ocean tries to deploy it.
I tried a bunch of stuff but it kept making the links for styling and assets wrong.
I ended up making it as another deployment in Digital Ocean and then routing to blog.mathiasegekvist.dk instead. That worked perfectly out of the box.
