Now that I have a skeleton stack up and running, the next big hurdle in adding content is the high activation energy of deploying. Writing a new post is easy since it is just a markdown file (and I’m having to learn markdown syntax again for the 100th time), but getting that file to show up on the site right now is:

1. Writing a markdown file
2. Running hugo to generate the public directory
3. Logging into AWS console, 2FA etc
4. Opening S3, deleting the old folder and uploading the new one*
5. Going to CloudFront and invalidating the cache

That’s a lot of manual steps for me to mess up and they are all done better on an actual computer (as opposed to a mobile device which is a nice to have for me).

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Figured I’d finally put some actual content here. When I set out to build a site my requirements were:

• Use a static framework because running a server/hosting on a platform!? Ain’t nobody got time for that
• Easy to add content. The entire reason why websites go stale IMO is that making content is hard and then publishing it to the site is harder. I want to avoid that
• Easy to theme/customize
• Minimal JS/Node

This criterial pretty much narrowed me down to Hugo.

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