Weeknotes 4

Slight cheat, this was started last week, which is how you’re able to read this - but it has continued into this week so I think I’m off the hook. This site is built using Hugo. The amount of static site generators these days is crazy. Choosing is very difficult so I ended up with Hugo because 1) it’s a single binary that should continue to work for many years; 2) speed, it’s very quick to build; and 3) it’s well supported.

The templating is a bit weird, but ok for my basic needs.

Speaking of websites…I am using Netlify to host the site. I have been slow to adopt the various “Jamstack” offerings, but so far I’m impressed. Anecdotally I don’t think that Netlify is quite as fast as one of my other sites hosted on Amazon S3/CloudFront but it’s still very quick, and deployment is easier. I really appreciate Netlify’s ability to preview pull requests and branches, lovely stuff.

The chair arrived. Not sure what I think about it. I have spent most of a week sitting in it, and I don’t love it. I probably should love it for the amount of money it cost. Current plan is to return it. And the search continues again.

I was pleased to see that the Phoenix team are moving away from using webpack as the default and switching to esbuild. A lot of their support issues are related to webpack, which is extremely unsurprising considering how hard webpack is to configure for even the most basic needs, so it’s hard to argue with their reasoning. I haven’t used esbuild but I’ve heard reports that it’s good so I’m interested to see where it leads.