Trying out Hugo for the blog Well I have had my eye on Hugo, a static site generator for some time now. It is written in Go, supports markdown, has a rich theme system, and as it says it generates html you can just drop in for nginx or whatever your webserver happens to be. I’ve been using hexo for some time now, and it has worked quite well, but I’m not fond of managing the Node dependencies, and I don’t know Javascript all too well so I wanted something that was both open source and written in a language I knew and could more easily contribute to.

Prepare for a boring post about blog software! Heya Folks! I decided to try out a new blog software, I found myself wanting to write posts in something more MarkDown like, and Wordpress didn’t have very many good options for a MD editor with proper syntax highlighting. I’ve been writing a lot of MD for our git repos at Tigera, and code examples on Slack, and other places. I did some digging and came very close to grabbing Jekyll, but after some research I ended up landing on Hexo.