Switching to Hugo

I’ve been using Jekyll to host this website since I’ve started it. I originally started using it because it’s what Github Pages provided, but since I wanted to use a custom theme, I had to use several hacks to publish a compiled version of my site to the master branch. I’ve finally switched to Hugo, since I figured that if I was going to have to roll my own publication tools, I might as well use a site generator that fit with my mental model.

Jekyll is a perfectly good piece of software, and I really enjoyed using it, but there were a few issues that got me to switch:

So I’ve switched! This is the first post that I’m publishing with Hugo after a long time setting up my theme (that’s what I get for porting a custom theme). Was it worth it? Yes. (Probably.)