So, I decided to make a blog.

Who?

It’s-a me, Mario…cough err.. It’s me, Mark.

What?

Blog… it’s a blog.

When?

Now. I’m blogging now.

Why?

Mostly just to jot down neat things that I discover while working on various projects. Posts will likely be very short in order to keep things light and fun, for me, instead of a thesis project.

How?

Requirements:

• Dead simple. Since writing posts will be done in the evening, it has to be amazingly simple or it’ll feel like work and I’ll turn on the PS4 or Netflix.
• Free. Or at least mostly free. Not trying to be cheap or anything, but it is a blog that no one will read…
• Static. No moving parts, just generated HTML from Markdown.
• Something cool. Would be nice to use something neat.

With the above in mind, I chose the following:

• Hugo: this is kind of no brainer. Checks off all of my boxes: dead simple, static site generator and neat. Plus, since Hugo is such a nice project, it might actually be applicable to future projects.
• GitHub Pages: Simple and free hosting for the blog. Might be fun to use something else later and get a proper domain name, but let’s just get something going.