https://terminaltom.com/posts/Recent content in Posts on TERMINAL TOMHugoen-gbThu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://terminaltom.com/posts/static-site-on-aws/Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://terminaltom.com/posts/static-site-on-aws/<p>A quick write-up of how I set up this site — partly as documentation for future me, partly in case it&rsquo;s useful to anyone else.</p> <h2 id="why-hugo">Why Hugo</h2> <p>I wanted something I could write in plain Markdown, build to static files, and deploy without a runtime. Hugo fits that exactly. It&rsquo;s a single binary, builds in milliseconds, and the output is just HTML and CSS.</p> <h2 id="the-build">The build</h2> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>hugo new site terminaltom </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>cd terminaltom </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>hugo new posts/first-post.md </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>hugo --minify </span></span></code></pre></div><p>The <code>public/</code> directory is everything you need to serve.</p>