Post: switching to Hugo

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+title: "Changing static site generators: Nanoc → Hugo"
+author: Jez Cope
+date: 2016-08-12T13:18:28+01:00
+slug: changing-static-site-generators-nanoc-hugo
+description: |
+  In which I continue to avoid actually writing
+  by moving to a new static site generator
+draft: false
+tags:
+- Meta
+- Web
+type: post
+---
+
+I've decided to move the site over to a different static site generator,
+[Hugo](http://gohugo.io/).
+I've been using [Nanoc](http://nanoc.ws) for a long time and it's worked very well,
+but lately it's been taking longer and longer to compile the site
+and throwing weird errors that I can't get to the bottom of.
+
+At the time I started using Nanoc, static site generators were in their infancy.
+There weren't the huge number of feature-loaded options that there are now,
+so I chose one and I built a whole load of blogging-related functionality myself.
+I did it in ways that made sense at the time
+but no longer work well with Nanoc's latest versions.
+
+So it's time to move to something that has blogging baked-in from the beginning
+and I'm taking the opportunity to overhaul the look and feel too.
+Again, when I started there weren't many pre-existing themes
+so I built the whole thing myself
+and though I'm happy with the work I did on it
+it never quite felt polished enough.
+Now I've got the opportunity
+to adapt one of the many well-designed themes already out there,
+so I've taken one from the [Hugo themes gallery](http://themes.gohugo.io)
+and tweaked the colours to my satisfaction.
+
+Hugo also has various features that I've wanted to implement in Nanoc
+but never quite got round to it.
+The nicest one is proper handling of draft posts and future dates,
+but I keep finding others.
+
+There's a lot of old content that isn't *quite* compatible with the way Hugo does things
+so I've taken the old Nanoc-compiled content and frozen it
+to make sure that old links should still work.
+
+I could probably fiddle with it for years without doing much
+so it's probably time to go ahead and publish it.
+I'm still not completely happy with my choice of theme
+but one of the joys of Hugo is that I can change that whenever I want.
+
+Let me know what you think!