Starting Fresh with Hugo: Setting Up My Blog

Setting Up Hugo: A Fresh Start

It’s been a while since I last set up a blog with Hugo, and in that time, I’ve drifted away from static site generation. Now, I’m starting fresh, going through the setup process from scratch, and rediscovering everything Hugo has to offer.

Installing Hugo

I followed the Hugo Quick Start guide, and the process was easy. While reading through it, one thing caught my attention—the mention of PowerShell vs. Windows PowerShell. That led me down a rabbit hole, and I came across this explanation. Pretty interesting how they differ!

Choosing a Theme: Why Tailwind?

While exploring the Hugo themes, I realized that Bootstrap had a dedicated tag for filtering themes, but Tailwind did not. Since Tailwind has been on my to-learn list for a while, I wanted to find a Tailwind-based theme. This led me to suggest a Tailwind tag on the Hugo forums, and thanks to the maintainers, a new Tailwind tag was created!

Now, I can easily filter all current Tailwind-based themes and explore them before settling on one.

Windows ARM and Hugo Extended: An Observation

While browsing Hugo’s download page, I noticed that Windows on ARM has a prebuilt binary, but Hugo Extended (needed for SCSS processing) and Hugo Extended with Deploy do not. I brought this up in a forum post, but there hasn’t been much info yet. I’ll take a deeper look to see if I can get it running manually and possibly contribute a fix.

Next Steps

With the basic setup in place, my next steps are:

• Exploring and choosing a Tailwind-based theme.
• Setting up a section on the blog for tracking what I plan to learn and explore.
• Experimenting with Hugo Extended on Windows ARM.
• Setting up a commenting system—because right now, you can’t leave a comment about your experience! (That’s on the list too.)

It feels good to be back with Hugo, and I’m excited for what’s next!

Once I set up the commenting system, you’ll be able to share your experience too. Until then, stay tuned!