When you have a static website, there are a few things that you usually don’t have out-of-the-box. One such thing is search. You can argue that you don’t need it, but if you want it and your site isn’t that large, I’ll describe how I’ve set it up without an external service. Read →

I happened to buy a domain name that could be used for short URL's and thought – why not, let's give it a try! Read →

For the custom JavaScript code on my Hugo blog I use Alpine.js. I’ll discuss the benefits and the limitations in this post. This post is part 4 in the Hugo Pipeline Series, but the benefits and limitations I discuss are not specific to using Alpine.js together with Hugo. Read →

In terms of developing my Hugo site, I'll focus on the JavaScript parts, since Hugo templates and CSS isn't much to talk about. I use a few libraries that I've installed with npm and those need to be processed before they are sent to the browser. The JavaScript code I have written myself, does not have that requirement. In that case it's just a matter of how old browsers I want to support. Read →

This is how I write and deploy content on this blog. I'll describe how I work with images and JavaScript dependencies to keep building and deploying as quick as possible. Read →