Hugo

What does your online presence say about you? For many students, searching their name online brings up little more than a LinkedIn profile and perhaps some social media accounts. This limited visibility can make it challenging to stand out professionally or showcase your actual skills and projects. A personal website offers a solution - providing a dedicated space where you can control your professional narrative and present your work on your own terms. ...

Recently I came across another engineer’s personal blog — clean layout, good typography, that “I actually finish my side projects” energy — and it pushed me to finally build one of my own. I picked Hugo because I like Go, and because using Jekyll in 2025 feels like opting into pain. I briefly considered Ghost, remembered it either requires paying Ghost or hosting Ghost, and closed the tab. And since I’m “the AWS guy,” it felt morally necessary to deploy the whole thing on AWS. Maybe I’d even use Kiro if I felt extra fancy. ...