B♥2C: building a cookbook with Hugo

My cookbook is live. Bruce loves to cook has 229 recipes, plus essays, methods, and engineering-style food logs, all of them Markdown files, built into a site with Hugo. I started the project with a simple objective: grab the best recipes and publish them on a simple site. I finished this version in a few hours, with a few more hours of automation, polish, and thinking about the shape of the files and folders. ...

October 29, 2026 · Bruce Alderson

Warped 42: back to basics

This is the 42nd version of my personal website and weblog, once again self-hosted at Dreamhost. I use the site as a forcing function; a way to learn various languages and tools, and a kick to get back into the habit of writing and publishing. This year I ported the content from Write.as to a self-hosted Hugo setup, which took about a day. Everything about Hugo has been better than expected, and the only hiccup was on the hosting side (SSL setup was broken for a few hours). ...

December 24, 2024 · Bruce Alderson