Hugo

Hugo Shortcodes

This post I want to talk about how easy Hugo Shortcodes are to use and I’m totally kicking myself for not trying them out sooner! I have a number of blog posts that have turned into a blog series and I wanted to have some kind of Table of Contents or reference in them and doing this manually each time, for every post just wasn’t sustainable. If I wanted to make a minor change, then every post would need updating, and there would be all this extra markdown in the post.

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Revamping the Blog

It’s been just over 12 months since I’ve started bloging and this is now the 3rd iteration of the blog. First it was Wordpress on Lightsail. There was a cost involved and if you really want to make wordpress useful you need to add the security holes also know as plugins. It’s not that Wordpress was a bad solution, but I had no need for all the bells and whistles it could provide.

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Goodbye Wordpress, Hello Hugo

Its been a while since I posted a blog. I have just been really busy with what seems like a never ending stream of things that need to be done. Over the last month or so, I have been getting into AWS a lot for both work and personal use. I was fortunate enough to get a subscription to A Cloud Guru and I have hit that content hard. Very hard!

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