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title: "Reworking the site frontend"
author: Mossfet
date: 2022-08-31T12:29:17+01:00
lastmod: 2022-08-31T12:29:17+01:00
draft: false
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My previous website implementation left much to be desired. It was difficult to debug, implemented with a maze of makefiles, bizarre perl commands, and creative uses of pandoc. While it was a pretty useful exercise in pandoc and make, it wasn't really a sustainable solution. I had heard about Hugo from YouTube, and was already planning to use it to implement a friend's blog, so figured this would be good practise. 

The only main downside I can think of is it means I'll have to put my plans of porting this site to Gemini will have to be put on hold. I've heard that there are ways of doing Gemini output on Hugo, but I don't want to focus on this while I'm still finding my feet. 

I'm still using the same very simple rocket.rs backend, with some minor tweaks. 
