Restarting the Blog
Why Restart The old Five Minutes Forward ran on Gatsby 2.x — a perfectly fine choice in 2020, but by 2026 the React/GraphQL build pipeline felt like unnecessary weight for what’s essentially publishing markdown files. So I’m starting fresh with a simpler stack. The Stack Hugo — static site generator. Builds in seconds, outputs pure HTML. Git → Deploy — write markdown, push, it’s live. That’s the whole workflow. PaperMod theme — clean, minimal, dark mode included, RSS built in. ...