Hello, World

This is the first post on the new site. It exists to prove the scaffolding works: Hugo builds it, the blog listing shows it, and the permalinks give it a stable URL at /blog/2025/06/hello-world/.

What this blog is for

A place to write about software — the kind of posts that are too long for a social post but too personal for a company blog.

Why Hugo

Hugo is fast, simple, and the content is just Markdown in Git. That is the whole appeal.

Static sites are boring, and boring is good.

A component from the custom module

This site keeps its reusable pieces in a Hugo module (modules/custom). The module ships a canvas shortcode, which renders a self-contained HTML5 <canvas> sized to its container and drawn with the site’s theme colors:

Add it anywhere in Markdown with