Setting up Hugo

Alright, so I opted to go for using Hugo as the static content generator.

Ultimately, I ended up just building it from source with

go install -tags extended github.com/gohugoio/hugo@latest

which, (after removing asdf shims from my toolpath) just worked. Don’t use the apt-get version, it’ll be old and incompatible with random themes you come across online.

Tricky bit is setting up the Github workflow pipeline.

Docs are here for that:

https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/

And wow, the workflow UI feels way better than gitlab.

Issues run into:

• baseUrl needs to be https or its going to look gnarly when the page tries to fetch http resources. Oops! However, I discovered that the default gitlab workflow was overriding this with --baseURL "${{ steps.pages.outputs.base_url }}/". In order to get the correct behavior I just removed this,

• Github seems geared to use jekyll by default, but the above “Hosting on Github” page explains how to tweak that.

• Old version of go didn’t work with desired Hugo Theme.

Plan for today.

For this week, I’m not going to have a week plan I think (subject to change, otherwise this would be a plan ;) ), just setup daily goals.

Goals Today:

• Get Hugo up and running on github.
• Finish reading ‘Chip Wars’ and publish notes.
• Get OpenFOAM up and running and figure out how to have moving boundary conditions.
• Groceries.
• Go running.