I always wanted a website/blog to write articles about what I like, so today I decided to make one!

After buying a domain and setting up the server I had just to decide what to write the website with.

Hugo

As a tech stack I wanted something simple and easy to mantain, Hugo makes everything so easy and painless that it is too good to be true.

Just install it and then write in the terminal

hugo new site <website-name> && cd <website-name>

to generate the template, install a good-looking theme from the themes page on the Hugo website, in my case Ficurinia

git clone https://github.com/patrickacciaioli/ficurinia themes/ficurinia

add the following line inside of hugo.toml with the greatest editor ever lived (Vim)

theme = "ficurinia"

Start the server with

hugo server 

and you are ready to go. A complete blog in seconds.

(This is a recursive website 😵‍💫)

Conclusion

Building a personal website with Hugo was faster and easier than I could have ever done in plain HTML. With minimal setup and maximum flexibility, Hugo proved to be the perfect choice for my blog. Now, I can focus on writing posts worrying about the infamous Hypertext Markup Language.