Version 5

2012 - 2016

I have tried several different static site generators, starting off with Octopress, tried out Github Pages, a bunch of aborted attempts of rolling my own, and eventually have settled on Hugo. Here's my current set of tools:

• Hugo: Go-based static site generator.
• Digital Ocean: Quite reasonably-priced cloud hosting
• NPM: Package manager extraordinaire
• Postcss: Trying out a little alternative to Sass, Less, & Stylus these days
  • cssnext: Trying to learn the new and emerging syntaxes
  • cssnano: Appears to be latest and greatest css compressor
• CloudFlare: DNS and performance tuning of the site.
• Atom: I moved from Sublime to Atom after Sublime 3 was in beta longer than it's plugins and just became frustrating.
• ImageOptim: Great GUI for batch lossless compression of various image formats.
• ImageAlpha: Still one of the best lossy PNG compressors that does PNG8+alpha transparency.
• Gulp: While I often just go NPM scripts, this is handy for the metadata it uses about files. Plus, the plugin community is strong (and it's a lot faster than Grunt).
• Git: This tool has changed how I work and allows me to be productive no matter where I am.
• Docker: Containerization has really simplified how I deploy and portability of my site.
• ESLint: Linting protects and style checking makes my code conform to standards.
• JSBeautify: I like my code looking consistent.
• SVG: From svgo to svgstore, vector graphics have really crispened up my site.