New Hugo Site

What is Hugo? #

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is fast, easy to use and has a lot of features. It is also very popular and has a lot of themes and plugins.

Why switching to Hugo? #

Well this is a good question. I used since the beginning of this blog the static site generator jekyll in combination with github pages. This setup was not bad at all, but I wanted to step up a bit and use more modern and more powerful tool. So my choice fell on Hugo.

One must have was the markdown ability to write posts, since I am writing my whole digital life in markdown (posts to Obsidian are in the pipeline). Furthermore I love the idea that the whole blog is just a bunch of markdown files which can be edited with any text editor, on any computer and with the worst internet connection possible.

I want to thank Nuno Coração for the great Blowfish Theme I am using. It looks wonderful, is open source, has a lot of features and is furthermore customizable but at the same moment very easy to use.

New Era of Blogging #

CoPilot and ChatGPT #

Well, yes. But what those highly developed chatbots cannot do is to keep you guys updated about my stuff and projects.

I think these new systems are not only scary, but also very promising to enhance our lives.

DALL E #

You probably recognized that something is different with the background image of these (and the other) posts. I used the DALL E model to generate these images. I am very bad at designing such images, but I think a blog need some kind of visual attraction.

Stable Diffusion #

What’s better than paying for a AI images which get’s uploaded to unknown servers? Hosting your own. An that’s possible through the open source project Stable Diffusion. But stable diffusion is just something like a backend service, for more convenience there are projects like InvokeAI which provides a nice web interface to generate images. But for now I am more than happy with DALL E, which does not mean that I will not try out a self hosted solution in the future.

What’s next? #

To be honest, I don’t know. I tried blogging a few times back then, but know I hope I stick with it and start learning in public.