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Rebuilding the Site: From Plain HTML to Hugo

For a while, my personal website relied on the absolute basics: static HTML files, standard CSS, and a bit of JavaScript for behavior. While this manual approach offers complete control, it scales poorly when you want to write and organize regular updates.

Recently, I decided to overhaul the site’s underlying technology to make publishing smoother. I transitioned to Hugo, a static site generator built around Markdown. It strips away the friction of writing raw HTML, letting me focus entirely on the content while the engine handles the templating and directory structure.

This marks the first entry under the new setup. The rebuilding process began right here:

hugo new posts/lets-start-writing.md

Lets see where this goes…