Initial Commit

It’s always tricky to come up with the first long post. To get a good start, I would like to thank the Hugo developers for creating the framework on which this blog is hosted. In a world where everything revolves around dynamic, user-submitted content, responsive pages, and high availability, there’s something magical about static web builders. I’ve always liked the idea: you write simple markdown documents for your content, and the generator creates a preview website for you.

What I like most is the simplicity and security. That’s the beautiful thing—if you don’t care about user input, you eliminate so many potential problems. If you don’t have sophisticated needs—if you’re hosting a personal blog, a portfolio, or a simple business page—you don’t need the headache of keeping things updated, secure, and maintained.

You can leverage free build pipelines, such as Cloudflare Pages, and compile your website simply by pushing a commit to GitHub. It’s convenient, and I highly recommend taking a closer look if your use case is similar.

I’ve used Hugo on some of my previous projects: a business website for a friend (jasperstreeservice.com), and another for my brother (biofeedbackswinoujscie.com). It’s really easy to get started, and you can produce a good-looking web page by taking advantage of publicly available open-source templates. You can achieve good SEO scores, standards compliance, and really nice results pretty quickly. Considering that I am not a web developer, I specialize mostly in developing backend services. I am not very good with HTML and web design. I recognize Hugo to be a great tool, that fits my needs particularly well.

I would like to extend my thanks to everyone and anyone involved in the project or developing themes, because that’s honestly what the web and internet should be all about—communities and people giving to each other to benefit the users. It’s also something that the title of this dev blog alludes to: the Eternal September. In times when the internet was, in some aspects, arguably better, there was a sense of community and people taking care of each other. The internet landscape is very dynamic and definitely not what it used to be, but I hope that the continuous effort of the open-source community and other like-minded people can keep the spirit of the old internet culture alive.