[annywhey]

I just switched my personal site from a custom Python script that generated markup to Hugo...plus custom Python scripts.

I wanted to automate the upload process too so I made something that is somewhat but not quite rsync-like (it uses a date and size heuristic to do fast incremental updates) - and then for the site content I realized that Hugo's design was resistant to text + image bundling, favoring static data independent of markup. The documentation on making a bundle work from within Hugo was both extremely limited and actually broken on current versions.

So I just rolled another script to publish content with. All it does is pre-process the Markdown and copy files.

Still, by going this route I'm still gaining advantages over the old system. It's nice to have a system that takes care of common stuff - themes, list generation, final markup. But it's much more valuable when it's supplemented with a custom system that lets me author the content at the level of abstraction I need.