New Blog Creation
Today I’ve taken it upon myself to create a new blog that I can use to show my proficiency in technologies as well as be able to say that I have a blog!
I’ve decided to use Hugo as the Static Site Generator because:
- It’s written in Go (A language I’d like to start learning)
- It appears to be one of the more popular static site generators
I previously tried going down this road with Pelican, which uses Python as the language to power it. But I found it rather clunky to get started with and lacking any themes that I liked. I will leave the old depreciated code up in my personal repo here: https://gitlab.com/retsnom513/retsnom513.gitlab.io. I will also be open-sourcing this blog as well, so the source code can be found here: https://gitlab.com/connorgrout/my-personal-site.
I’ve just decided to use the out-of-the-box GitLab template for Hugo sites to help jump start things. This will make things quick to start for me, but may take some cleanup to remove all of the extra junk that comes in the sample repository.
The idea is that I will start to post some of the items that I’m currently working on in both a professional and personal manner. This may be because I can’t post code I’m directly working on due to licensing for companies. Or just some things that I’ve learned when working on new technologies. I will also include anything I’ve worked on personally like my homelab or any other cool things I’ve done.
Some of the upcoming items that will be covering in the not too distant future:
- Converting my homelab from podman kublet to true Kubernetes
- Start to discuss some of the professional items I’m working on like Node.js, React, Django and Docker
