building & deploying this blog with hugo!

and now - to the story of how this blog was born!

(it’s nothing special, but I thought I’d document it for myself when i inevitably forget how i did it in the future, as well as any other wandering lost souls out there!)

i’ve been meaning to re-jig my tech blog for a while now. for the last year and a bit, I experimented with the static site generator (SSG) jekyll. jekyll is essentially a tool built in ruby that combines blog posts (typically written in markdown, .md files) with themes/config files to generate browser-renderable code (HTML, CSS and JS).