Andrey Listopadov has (yet another) post on blogging with Hugo. His post is distinguished by his attempt to be comprehensive. He says that when he was trying to start blogging all the “how to” posts were too shallow to be helpful and that he wanted his to be truly useful. His other desire was to show how to use Emacs and Org-mode in the workflow.
If you want a static blog—and there are plenty of reasons to prefer that—then this is a very useful post to read. Even if you don’t want to write in Emacs and Org there is a lot of useful information on how to get started. Most of the information is a step-by-step guide to setting up a Hugo blog so I won’t repeat it here; take a look at the post for the details.
One of the things I liked most about his post was a sort of afterthought. Listopadov asks if you, the reader, should start blogging. He concludes that, yes, you should. His reason for thinking so is neatly captured by Daniel Boorstin’s (the 12th Librarian of Congress) famous quote, “I write to find out what I think.” Actually, the full quote is even better: “I write to find out what I think. After all, the bars aren’t open that early.” Humor aside, it’s a great point. I often find that I don’t understand something until I write about it. If you’re an engineer, you may find that you’ll understand a problem better after writing about it. What better place to do that than a blog?