For the past three years, this blog used the mimimo theme. I like that theme because it was simple and kept the pages clean. I ran into some update issues lately with the submodule setup that I was using so I wasn’t completely happy with the theme. Plus, it has way more things that I didn’t need, like social links and stuff like that.

Today, I was reading this lwn’s article about Hugo. The first comment included a mention to Infinite Ink’s themeless setup for Hugo. I loved the idea right away.

So now I dropped the minimo theme setup and I went completely themeless or, more accurately, I am currently running a minimal Hugo setup with handcrafted layouts.

It is going well so far. I was able to add a footer to article pages fairly easy. I just ran into a hiccup with my post-receive hook being mis-configured and building the site using the http address instead of the https one leading to the ccs not being served correctly. That was an easy fix and now everything works well.