Hi, I’m Hanh. This is the first post on a small blog I put together with Hugo, a static site generator written in Go, and the PaperMod theme.

Why a static blog?

A few reasons I like this setup over a hosted platform:

  • Fast: pages are pre-rendered HTML, no server-side rendering per request.
  • Free hosting: GitHub Pages serves it directly from this repo.
  • Markdown-native: posts are just .md files under content/posts/, so writing and version control both stay simple.
  • No lock-in: the content lives in plain text, not a proprietary database.

What to expect

This is a demo site, so the next couple of posts show off some of Hugo’s content features:

  1. Code blocks and syntax highlighting
  2. Images and shortcodes

More real posts to come. Thanks for stopping by!