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Sometimes Software Is Done, or Why Hugo Why (2024)

I didn’t sit down this morning planning to write a grouchy blog post about Hugo. When I first used Hugo I loved it. It was fast. It was simple. It just worked, as much as any software does, and it solved a real problem. It was done. But people kept working on it. I’m sure that it has been improved in countless ways. But along the way it has gotten bigger and more complicated, and has broken backwards compatibility repeatedly.

I didn’t sit down this morning planning to write a grouchy blog post about Hugo. It takes a lot of self control to forgo the glittering pile of side projects and use my precious free time to write some words instead of code. And in the meantime, I’ll just compile Hugo myself from source, never update it, and live in the ever receding past.

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