Introduction

A personal knowledge base.

This site is an attempt to create a knowledge base of technical topics that I’m interested in and to document how I have solved certain problems. The idea is to be a useful reference for myself to refer back to, whilst also being useful to others. It is also a testbed for me to try things out with the Hugo static site generator and generally experiment with the concept of documentation. So I’ll try not to make it too much of a moving target, and hopefully any changes made will improve it.

As it’s a technical site, and in case you like what you see, the tech stack used is as follows:

• Hugo static site generator. This means that I don’t need a database to hold content, and I don’t need slow scripts generating content whenever it’s requested.
• Doks theme. This is a theme for Hugo that is intended for documentation sites. So far it seems reasonable for my purposes, but I might tweak it as I go.
• GitHub Pages. GitHub Pages provides hosting for static sites. By default, it expects the Jekyll static site generator to be used, but you can set things up so that Hugo works on GitHub Pages too.