Hugo Archtypes are useless

Okay, they’re not totally useless but they might as well be. I opted to use a shell script in a mise task to manually create the file with the information I needed. Specifically, what I figured was an obvious thing was to run the command something like, hugo new content/posts/1767247204-sample.md --tile "Sample Post" --date "2026-01-01 00:00:04", otherise Hugo will insert a titlized version of the filename and the current date for the new post. This probably seems like niche issue but it’s important to me and it’s such an obvious option if you needed to back post something or perhaps you wrote it out on paper on one day and wanted it posted as that day not the current day the markdown was created. ...

January 11, 2026 · 2 min

Removing Hugo as a Blog Application

Absolutely nothing against Hugo, in fact I love Hugo as a blog framework. I found myself focused too much on having the right look and meddling with themes that I was not producing any posts. This one will be short, I am not a wordy person. I just wanted to get my thoughts down while they were on my mind. I will return to Hugo at some point or maybe something better than Hugo will have come around by the time I am ready to return. In the meantime, I will focus on creating posts within this repository.

February 15, 2025 · 1 min