https://blog.naveja.us/blog/netlify/Recent content in Netlify on Bridle WorksHugoen-USCopyright © 2026, Aidan Naveja.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.naveja.us/how-this-site-is-built/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.naveja.us/how-this-site-is-built/<p>The setup is carried over from the personal blog this site replaced. It has worked without attention since 2024, which is the best thing a blog&rsquo;s plumbing can do.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Plain Markdown in a git repository.</strong> Each post is one file. The history of the site is the repository&rsquo;s history.</li> <li><strong><a href="https://gohugo.io/">Hugo</a> with the <a href="https://github.com/janraasch/hugo-bearblog">hugo-bearblog</a> theme</strong>, which follows <a href="https://bearblog.dev/">Bear Blog</a>: pages of a few kilobytes, no scripts, no tracking.</li> <li><strong>The theme is a git submodule</strong>, so it can be updated or pinned without copying its files into this repository.</li> <li><strong><a href="https://www.netlify.com/">Netlify</a> builds and serves the site</strong> whenever the repository changes. There is no server to look after.</li> </ul> <h2 id="the-one-thing-that-did-not-work">The one thing that did not work</h2> <p>Netlify&rsquo;s Hugo quickstart template would not build with this theme, whatever was tried. What worked was starting from nothing: an empty repository, a new Hugo site inside it, the theme added as a submodule, and the theme&rsquo;s example content copied in as a starting point. Netlify built that on the first push.</p>