Writing and publishing a first post through Hugo & GH Pages

The idea was to have an easy way to post short writings. I was already using Obsidian, I already had a domain, I already had a Github account, and I recently learned about Hugo in one of NetworkChuck’s videos.

I set out to try and make the process for publishing my written out thoughts as smooth and frictionless as possible; because friction is always the problem, right.

As one does with sidequests, letting them become the actual main quest, it took me some considerable stumbling around before I worked up the courage to install Hugo, initialize a new repo, and try and get a test post published on it. Naturally, the first and most important task was picking a theme.

What I should’ve done though would be to read through the Hugo docs a bit more and maybe also the example .toml provided in the theme I picked. (the one thing I did right from the get go I think) And also the Github Pages documentation where it very clearly and unambiguously states how to name your repo when initializing it. hint hint

So far the wins of this project are:

• Get a hugo site live on my domain through Github.
• Wrangle git and get some basic commands in my working memory.
• Un-sidetrack yourself fast when falling for a visual rabbit hole.

As for the learning opportunities, they are:

• As mentioned under the wins, visual rabbit holes are my nemesis; picking a theme for Hugo, making the .toml files show with color coding in VSCode, you name it. — Stay alert and leave the visual finicking for later.
• RTFM — Read The Fucking Manual. It’s a good thing to get to action fast, but a bit more doc reading wouldn’t hurt.