Hugo on slightlymore

Deploying a Hugo site using Github Actions

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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:

fire up neovim and write
commit and push
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:

Tap tap, is this thing still on?

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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.