What is this place

What is this place

Well, this shall be my blogging environment for the future. Currently, I'm working on multiple interesting projects that deserve some write-ups. I do think making such documents might help me deepen my understanding of said subjects.

How was this place created

I never had any experience with blogging before. Initially, I wanted to host my own website with some custom dynamic features (such as a built-in editor for writing these blog Markdown files), but I soon realized that putting in so much work for a technology that already exists is not worth it. That's when I got Hugo recommended by pskrgag (who has a great personal website built with it here). So I started reading about it and quickly realized how awesome it is. A static site generator not only ensures quick load times but also makes it possible to host my blogs on GitHub paired with GitHub Actions! I love automation so I decided to ditch the idea about making my own blogging platform. This is when I started looking into Hugo and that's how I came across Zola. A bit of a history lesson: Jelkyll was the original tool used to do static site generation, however it became increasingly slow. That's how Hugo came along with its blazing fast Go generator. However Hugo's template files were notoriously hard to understand. That's how Zola came along. Written in Rust, it often provides faster generation times (although the difference between Hugo's and Zola's performance is marginal) and offers a more transparent template system. Given the growing popularity of Zola and my Rust fanaticism, I ended up creating this site with Zola. As you can see, it works perfectly well and offers a beautiful (well, at least in my eyes) UI.