Jekyll to Hugo

I took some time this weekend to do the following:

1. Migrate this site from Jekyll to Hugo.
2. Create a new site theme.
3. Update the About page.
4. Add a new Articles section.

The Articles section will allow me to write longer articles without polluting the main blog.

Hugo Migration

Pros:

• Significantly faster. Jekyll sometimes tool 30 seconds to regenerate this site, and Hugo does it in less than a second.
• Single static binary. Much easier to install.
• Built-in SASS/SCSS support.
• HTML, CSS, and JavaScript minification. In particular, HTML minification is content-aware so it doesn’t strip significant whitespace in <pre> or <code> blocks. View the source of this page to see what I mean).
• Go template support.
• Jekyll importer that works reasonably well (but see below).

Cons:

• The default Markdown parser is limited and not based on GitHub-flavored Markdown.
• Because of the previous item, many of the literal <img> elements in my imported Jekyll content had to be fixed by hand.
• Occasionally baffling template search order.
• Default RSS feed entry contents are truncated and stripped of HTML.

Theme Rewrite

Changes in the new theme:

• Clean rewrite based on Bulma v0.9.3.
• Icons from Feather Icons.
• Consistent font sizes.
• Improved layout. In particular, I removed the sidebar and improved the page header.