Count Your Days, Hugo

3/18/26

When I started this site almost 7 years ago I was writing mostly R code in mostly rmarkdown notebooks and deployed on Netlify. Then I was writing less R code and more Python code so I switched to using just Hugo to render this site.

Now that I’m wanting to give my site a facelift and some more interactive elements, I’d like to try Astro out. I’ll still write the content in markdown like I currently do but will have more opportunities to write JavaScript, which is something I’m trying to gain more experience with.

I followed(ish) their basic blog example here and had a good experience. The component system is great and if I want to add any bells and whistles it’ll be easy bc everything is in JavaScript.