Rakhim Davletkaliyev has posted the fifth episode of his excellent Emacs podcast, Emacscast. This time he talks mostly about blogging with Hugo but, as usual, he starts with a description of the changes he’s made to his configuration since the last podcast.
Those changes mostly involve moving from Helm to Ivy on the grounds that Helm does more than he needs and that the lighter weight Ivy better fits his needs. As I’ve said many times, I consider Ivy one of my most important packages: it’s right up there with Org mode and Magit. The other interesting item from the configuration news is his Castelmacs package, which is a minimalist Emacs configuration especially for the Mac. It’s aimed at people who have a lot of Mac muscle memory and would like to use that with Emacs.
In the last episode, Davletkaliyev said that he experimented with using Hugo and Emacs to blog and that the experiment was so successful that he switched both his personal blog and the EmacsCast blog over to the framework. In this episode, he gives the back story on his blogging and discusses how he does things with Hugo. If you’re looking for a nice blogging engine and don’t want a heavy weight solution like WordPress, you should listen to what Davletkaliyev has to say about Hugo. It appears to be an excellent solution that lets you write your posts with Org mode. It’s also the solution that Mike Zamansky just moved his C’est La Z blog (home of the popular Using Emacs videos) to so you can see three examples of the results.
The podcast is 38 minutes so you’ll have to schedule some time.