Hej there
Tech, side projects, and life in the PNW. Written by a data scientist who splits time between pistes and debugging.
Building This Blog: Hugo + PaperMod + Cloudflare Pages
I wanted a blog that’s fast, cheap to host, and easy to maintain. After evaluating a few options, I landed on Hugo with the PaperMod theme, deployed to Cloudflare Pages. Here’s the full breakdown. The stack Static site generator: Hugo — fast builds, great templating, large ecosystem Theme: PaperMod — clean, minimalist, fast, well-maintained Hosting: Cloudflare Pages — free tier, global CDN, automatic deploys from GitHub Comments: Giscus — powered by GitHub Discussions Domain: Cloudflare Registrar (at-cost pricing, ~$10/year) Why Hugo? I considered Next.js, Astro, and Jekyll before settling on Hugo: ...