Hello World

This is the first post on the rebuilt site. It exists mainly to exercise the pieces: front matter, tags, summaries, syntax highlighting, and the RSS feed.

Why rebuild

The old site had accumulated the usual sediment — a theme three major versions behind, a build that only worked on one laptop, and a deploy step that lived in someone’s shell history. Starting clean was cheaper than excavating.

The stack

Hugo generating static files, S3 holding them, CloudFront serving them. No database, no server to patch, no runtime to keep current.

Building locally is one command:

hugo server -D

And a production build is another:

hugo --minify

That’s the whole thing. If this post renders with its tags listed underneath, a summary on the blog index, and an entry in the feed, the pipeline works.