My blogging process

Actually, nobody asked me how I write this blog.

But I thought I’d write about it anyway haha.

I’m used to writing in Markdown, so that’s what I use here too.

I usually write things down in my notes… read everywhere. Sometimes I collect little bits and pieces throughout the whole week. A sentence here, an idea there, something I noticed or remembered. And then sometimes I just sit on the porch and write the whole thing in two minutes.

It really depends.

But, when I have enough for a post, I put it into a .md file.

At the top there is a little bit of information for Hugo, like the title and date, and then I write the actual post underneath it.

The .md file isn’t the webpage itself. It’s just the source.

This is where Hugo comes in.

Hugo is a static site generator. It takes my Markdown files, combines them with my templates and CSS, and generates the actual HTML files that make up the website.

So when I write a new post, I don’t have to write HTML for it.

I just run: hugo

Hugo reads everything in the site, builds the pages and puts the finished website into a folder called public.

That folder is basically the website.

If I open it, I’ll find the HTML files, CSS, images and everything else that needs to be on the server.

I can also preview the site locally before uploading it:

hugo server

It starts a little local web server and I can open the site in my browser, check the new post, fix something, save it and look again.

Once everything looks right, I upload the public folder to Neocities.

Usually just: neocities push public

And that’s it.

I actually like it that way.