Migrated to blogdown

Migrated - but why?

I was using Hugo for static site generation with Beautiful Hugo as a theme. The theme is known for its balancing act between simplicity and proseness for a blog. With Hugo its a fast act to creating and publishing the contents. It was all good until I wanted to embed a HTML page. iFrame is always there but including the charts, especially interactive ones generated as HTML is tough to embed in the post (at least for me).

Hugo Site Deployment Using Github Actions

Setting up the site through GH Actions

This is a small write up about setting up GitHub Actions to deploy Hugo site. Table of content How I was deploying it earlier? What was the problem there? How does the GitHub Actions helps us here? How I was deploying it earlier? I used to have 2 commits for any changes. Changes to the posts HTML documents generated through hugo command What was the problem there?

Starting with Jekyll

It’s cool to have a personal website. As a novice, where to start? The cheapest, practical and programmatic option is Github Pages Cheapest - Free to use GH Pages. You may not get a dedicated domain, but you’ll get a name.github.io Practical - You can go for blogger or wordPress for writing a blog post. However, you’ll never get to experience the nitty-gritty involved with running an actual website. Programmatic - Once you started programming, it will be intriguing to learn something new.

Welcome to the site!

This is a new site built on Jekyll, hosted on GitHub.

I came across the GitHub Pages. As the flow looks intriguing, I’m trying out this. As a blogger I tried out Wordpress, Blogspot and Medium. The interest to compose a post fizzles out very often. However, I’m trying harder to reverse the trend.

Let’s see how it goes.