My old website is from summer 2013 and celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. At that time, jquery was brand new and I tried it out. Since the site was static at first, but I wanted to create some posts dynamically, I used Dokuwiki in the backend. The rendered HTML pages were then injected into the site. PHP was running in the background for Dokuwiki, contact form and some scripts. But I think it was time to change some things here.

New Techstack

Times have changed. Wordpress is the de-facto standard everywhere and site-generators like Wix make it easy to create websites for non-techies. However running dynamic Content Management Systems is error prone and offers an attack surface. Therefore, if you don’t have much time to maintain a website, static sites make sense, as they offer rather less time to maintain. As I am playing around with Go lately, I wanted to give Hugo a try to see, how well the workflow with Github Actions runs in practise.

My techstack therefore is pretty simple:

• Hosting: Github Pages, Github Actions for Workflow
• Static Site Generator: Hugo
• Theme: hugo-theme-stack