http://xicheng.me/posts/ Recent content in Posts on Xi Cheng's Backyard Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 04 Mar 2020 00:00:26 -0800 http://xicheng.me/posts/the-genesis-of-this-blog/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 00:00:26 -0800 http://xicheng.me/posts/the-genesis-of-this-blog/ tl;dr This blog post walks you through the detailed steps to create a blog website with AWS and Hugo. The core idea is to simply use AWS’s static-hosting web service and to utilize Hugo, a modern web framework to generate static content for your blog post. Background Story Let’s talk about the “Genesis” of this website. It is the 21st century, and creating a personal website should be really simple, right? http://xicheng.me/posts/hello-world/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 13:57:56 -0800 http://xicheng.me/posts/hello-world/ Welcome to my backyard. After procrastinating for so long, I finally got my personal website shaped up with technologies that I felt comfortible with (AWS + Hugo). I envision this site to be a “playground” type of place for me to publish technical content relevant to programming, math, puzzles and etc. I cannot wait to get started.