So the theme i used until now was Blackburn, it was nice, but the background was just too white for me.

Now you might say that i should just override the theme’s CSS and be done with it, but I don’t have that kind of aesthetic sense.

I really should have.

But here I am, with a new template, that I built, almost from scratch, so let’s see what I learned in the past few days.

So it started with the new xkcd today, I tought “this is easy, I’ll be done in an hour”.

Then I went down the rabbit-hole that is customizing Hugo.

But first the generator

You can check it out here

The application itself is rather simple, it is carried by two functions, calling each other.

The first, taking an array, and making a string out of all it’s elements

function pickOneOfEach (arr) {
  let result = ''

  for (let el of arr) {
    if (Array.isArray(el)) {
      result += pickRandom(el)
    } else {
      result += String(el) // turn everything to string, because .toString() can be unreliable in what it returns
    }
  }

  return result
}

And a second one, getting me a random element from an array

So today after a long while I finally got around to automating the deploy of the blog.
Tough not the way I initially thought.

The first idea was to install Hugo on the server and have it periodically pull and rebuild the repository

Then I remembered Travis CI.

I quickly looked it up, and saw that I was not the first to think up the idea (no big surprise there), so let’s see what we can find.

So for the first post on my blog I will tell you about my experience with Hugo

Setup is simple enough, just follow the instructions on their get started page. If you are on Windows I recommend installing with Chocolatey

A lot less painful on Windows than Jekyl, as you don’t have to mess around with installing ruby

Last time I tried to set Jekyl up I was messing around for about 3 hours, comparatively this site was about 1 hour, from deciding to set it up to this post