Welcome to Hugo

September 10, 2026

If this is your first time using Hugo, here’s the short version of how this site is put together.

Every page on this site starts as a plain Markdown file under site/content/. Hugo reads those files, runs them through a template, and produces static HTML — no database, no server-side rendering per request, just files.

A few useful facts for finding your way around:

• Pages like this one’s _index.md at the top of a folder become the section’s landing page (this post’s section, posts/, has its own _index.md acting as the blog’s index page).
• Front matter — the title, date, and summary fields at the top of this file, between the --- lines — controls how a page is titled, sorted, and previewed in listings.
• Drafts — add draft: true to a page’s front matter and Hugo skips it during a normal build, so you can write without publishing.

To add a new post, copy this file, change the front matter, and write your content below it. The README covers the exact rebuild/redeploy commands.