I have a few blogs, including this one, and over the years I’ve used a few different platforms. My first ever blog was on WordPress, but now all of my blogs use Hugo, a static site generator written in Go.
The one “downside” to using a static site generator is that you can’t easily do some of the things that a server-based system can do, like cross-posting to other places. This is a post about why I chose to use Hugo and how I post to Mastodon and Bluesky (mostly) automatically.