Credit where its due

Recently, after scouring for breadcrumbs over numerous articles on the internet, to figure out a problem I was working on, I had a cold hard look in the mirror.
It just hit me that even though I consumed a lot of information, courtesy of the kind folks of the Internet; I hardly had contributed back to the ecosystem. It wasn’t for the lack of information to share. I have had fruitful discussions personally with a lot of people and tried to disseminate the things that I knew.
But I have never been able to collate these tidbits together and publish them on the Internet for others to stumble on.
Lack of initiative and my self confessed handicap with CSS was to blame.
I had missed the bus with Jekyll but I knew I had to set the balance right soon.

I have been on a Golang romance for a while now. I usually refer Awesome-Go, which is kind of a ready reckoner for all things Golang.
There, I came across this beauty of tool called Hugo.
Going through the documentation of the tool, I realized it was never going to be simpler to achieve my goal of having a personalized blog.

Steve Francia a.k.a spf13 on Github, the creator of Hugo has indeed made building a static website, fun again.

The beauty of Hugo is accentuated further by a vibrant community which has created ready to use MIT-licensed themes.They are showcased at the Hugo Themes Showcase

Looking at the variety of options available, I chose the hugo-cactus-theme created by digitalcraftsman.

Deploying a personal blog would have been much harder, if not for the existence of the aforementioned tools and their creators. I would like to express my deepest appreciation towards them.