#001 - Ditching Hugo

Date: 2026-05-04

I ended up ditching hugo (or all other website builders for that matter) for this site.
Not because it is bad, it actually looks pretty powerful, but because to me it felt like a black box since I did not know how it worked well enough. I did not want to learn a whole new templating system, configuration structure etc just. to generate a few static pages.

At some point I realised that I had two options; either spend time learning hugo, or spend the same time building a simple generator with an Html template, that I undertand, and can control for my exact needs.

So I decided to go with the second option. Mainly because now I have the website ready, I can do some stuff manually while I develop the engine. And then it is ready for my use case.

Honestly, it will be way more primitive and probably end up taking a bit more time. But I enjoy writing C much more than anyhting close to web development.