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draft = true
date = 2020-02-15T12:11:43Z
title = "Building a Blog with Hugo"
slug = "my-hugo-blog"
description = ""
tags = ["Hugo"]
categories = ["Blog"]
series = []
+++

wanted to build a blog.

decided on hugo.  
why?

customisation  
dark mode -- persistence
material icons, not fontawesome - fontawesome bloated,
  unfortunately no social icons
  require only a few icons so decided to use svg and partial templates
  this does duplicate the code (the rendered code, not the source code - duplication of code is bad in source code) but because of the size of them think this is worth it
  adds a little to size of page - but don't need to load fontawesome file (although probably cached when using cdn)
  could have used them as regular assets and included in img tag but why didn't I? 

challenges  
not knowing Go  
solution - learn go in y minutes  
looks an interesting language - would like to learn more when got enough time  

impressions of hugo  
fast  
sometimes forget just how fast static sites are  

the future  
add comments - don't like sound of disquss  
consider adding google analytics  
conflicted about google