https://connor.grout.xyz/tags/2024/ Recent content in 2024 on A Personal Blog and Professional Portfolio for Connor Grout Hugo en Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:23:13 -0400 https://connor.grout.xyz/posts/2024/09/new-blog-creation/ Sun, 08 Sep 2024 17:06:55 -0400 https://connor.grout.xyz/posts/2024/09/new-blog-creation/ <p>Today I&rsquo;ve taken it upon myself to create a new blog that I can use to show my proficiency in technologies as well as be able to say that I have a blog!</p> <p>I&rsquo;ve decided to use Hugo as the Static Site Generator because:</p> <ol> <li>It&rsquo;s written in Go (A language I&rsquo;d like to start learning)</li> <li>It appears to be one of the more popular static site generators</li> </ol> <p>I previously tried going down this road with <a href="https://getpelican.com/" title="Pelican" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" > Pelican</a>, which uses Python as the language to power it. But I found it rather clunky to get started with and lacking any themes that I liked. I will leave the old depreciated code up in my personal repo here: <a href="https://gitlab.com/retsnom513/retsnom513.gitlab.io" title="https://gitlab.com/retsnom513/retsnom513.gitlab.io" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" > https://gitlab.com/retsnom513/retsnom513.gitlab.io</a>. I will also be open-sourcing this blog as well, so the source code can be found here: <a href="https://gitlab.com/connorgrout/my-personal-site" title="https://gitlab.com/connorgrout/my-personal-site" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" > https://gitlab.com/connorgrout/my-personal-site</a>.</p>