https://rickymoorhouse.uk/tags/blog/ Recent content in Blog on Ricky Moorhouse Hugo en-gb Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://rickymoorhouse.uk/projects/blog/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://rickymoorhouse.uk/projects/blog/ <p>My site is powered by Hugo and lives on GitHub. I use GitHub Actions to build and deploy the site to BunnyCDN.</p> <h1 id="hugo">Hugo</h1> <p>After previously using a self-built blogging engine and then Wordpress for a while, I decided that I didn't want to deal with running a database backed dynamic site any longer and that a static file based site would both perform better and be simpler to keep running. I looked at a number of different static site generators and played with <a href="https://jekyllrb.com">Jekyll</a> and <a href="http://getpelican.com">Pelican</a> but in the end decided on <a href="https://gohugo.io">Hugo</a>. This was primarily as I have been moving more to building things in Go and the templating system and site structure felt like a good fit for my needs.</p> https://rickymoorhouse.uk/blog/2018/places-visited-map/ Thu, 26 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://rickymoorhouse.uk/blog/2018/places-visited-map/ <p>For a while I've had a variation on my map of the places I've visited - here's a summary of how my current version is working.</p> <p>The whole site is currently generated by <a href="https://gohugo.io">hugo</a>, a static site generator with no server side component. The map is powered by <a href="https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/">MapBox GL</a> which lets me choose any of the <a href="https://www.mapbox.com/gallery/">mapbox styles</a> to use for my map. I create a markdown file for each place on the map, with the latitude and longitude in the 'front matter' for the post which looks something like this:</p>