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June 28, 2021 - 2 minutes read - 236 words

Looks like it’s time to learn Markdown

I’ve been working on some projects that I think are share-worthy so I decided it was time to revamp my site. I wanted something that’s simple and fast to load.

Since I’m already a Cloudflare customer (and stock holder), I thought I’d give Pages a test run. I was able to setup a very quick Jekyll project, but ultimately decided to go with Hugo as the static site generator.

This is all free by the way. Free and fast.

I wouldn’t call Hugo easy, but it’s not too difficult either. The documentation for Hugo and how to set it up on Cloudflare is good. The biggest problem I had while trying to get this site setup was getting errors on the build, even though everything looked good per the documentation. It turns out that Cloudflare defaults to an older version of Hugo than what was requried to run the code as documented. But that’s easy to remedy by setting an environment variable to set the version.

The other issue is that I’m markdown challenged. Hence the title of this post. All content is written in Markdown.

But, I enjoy learning and experimenting, so this is just one more thing (two? three?) to learn and try. That’s what this site is about, and now I can get to posting about a project that I want to share. That’s next time.