https://cphaynes.app/posts/Recent content in Posts on cphaynes.appHugoen-usSun, 30 Aug 2026 11:02:48 -0400https://cphaynes.app/posts/how-this-site-is-built/Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:02:48 -0400https://cphaynes.app/posts/how-this-site-is-built/<p>This site is a static <a href="https://gohugo.io/">Hugo</a> blog, hand-built rather than hosted on a managed platform, served from a small home server with no inbound ports opened on the router. Here&rsquo;s the full stack, front to back.</p> <h2 id="the-generator">The generator</h2> <p>The site is built with Hugo (extended edition, for the Sass/SCSS pipeline some themes need), using the <a href="https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod">PaperMod</a> theme as a git submodule rather than a vendored copy — that keeps theme updates a simple <code>git submodule update --remote</code> away from the actual content. Site-specific look-and-feel changes (typography, spacing, color palette, small structural tweaks) live entirely in a <code>layouts/</code> and <code>assets/css/extended/</code> override directory alongside the theme, so nothing is hand-edited inside the theme&rsquo;s own files. That&rsquo;s Hugo&rsquo;s standard override mechanism: anything you drop in the site&rsquo;s own <code>layouts/_partials/</code> shadows the theme&rsquo;s version of that same partial, and any CSS files under <code>assets/css/extended/</code> get concatenated in automatically after the theme&rsquo;s core stylesheet — so a later rule with equal specificity wins the cascade without needing <code>!important</code> anywhere.</p>