Posts tagged: #Hugo

I set up a new website zero-g-roll ↗️ as a place to reinvigorate my love of rollercoasters and theme parks.

Some high level architectural notes:

• Uses Hugo (the same tech which publishes my digital garden)
• Notes written in a dedicated Obsidian vault
• CD pipeline publishes a new version every time I push content to source control

Back in the day (a quarter of the century at the time of writing) I had a site about B&M coasters which I was obsessed by. I want to pick up where I left off with my encyclopaedic knowledge but perhaps broaden my horizons a little and write about whatever I like instead of just B&M.

I thought I’d share my github action which deploys this site whenever a push a new file to main. It compiles the site with hugo and the rsyncs across to the server.

This means that my workflow is:

1. fire up neovim and write
2. commit and push
3. sit back and wait for the site to update

The code for the action is below. It requires a couple of secrets to be set up:

This website has been in a bit of a dilapidated state since, well, COVID really. Things have moved on a lot since then and I’d like to make a new start.

Rather than do what I’ve done before and try to recover the site as it was and create a new theme for wordpress and whatnot, I’m redoing everything and hoping that’ll help. This time it’s just going to be a load of articles, thoughts, nonsense, and loosely based on the idea of a Zettelkasten which is something which I have had a lot of success with over the last few years using Obsidian. Hopefully it’ll feel informal enough that I’ll not feel pressure and just, you know, write.