Comment by theshrike79
5 days ago
I had the same issue and I'm currently thinking whether it's easier to just Vibe Engineer my own static site generator with the exact features I need vs fighting with the hugo theme system.
My needs for a site are pretty simple, so I might just go with the custom-built one to be honest.
If it breaks, I can just go look in the mirror for the culprit =)
EDIT: Just made my own. Claude + Opus and about 3-4 prompts.
Looking at the comments here a common pain (that I share) is config and code drift, or just losing your config file and being unable to publish a new version without re-doing everything.
I made a version where everything, including the HTML templates and CSS, is built in to a single static Go executable, no configuration files, everything is hard-coded.
This way as long as I have the specific executable version and the source markdown files, I can deterministically replicate my blog output structure.
The source is a directory in my Obsidian vault and the setup supports Obsidian-style front-matter