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Building a Blog With Hugo
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
In my inaugural Twitch stream, I went from an empty folder on my machine, to having a static blog site (complete with first post), with cloud hosting and automated continuous delivery in about an hour. This post reviews some of the detail and includes useful links to the resources I used. Why a Static Site? Static website generators are command-line tools which take a set of text files containing your content (usually written in a simple markup language like Markdown) and, using a series of templates, generate an entire site as a series of HTML and CSS files.…
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Perfect is the Enemy of Good
Monday, July 13, 2020
The best way to make sure something never happens is to ask a perfectionist to do it. The constant pursuit of perfection leads to projects which take forever. Particularly in the software world where, one could argue, there is no such thing as perfect (all code has bugs, right!?). At its worst, the constant need to make sure things are perfect before releasing them to the world can lead to never starting in the first place.…