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🇨🇦🇨🇦 robyn 💜💜
@robyn@yeg.bike

hi hello I wrote up a little #blog #post about cooking up my own theme for hugo:

🌐🌐 https://www.robyns.space/posts/creating-my-theme/

my host is blocking link previews from being pulled 🙃🙃 so here's a screengrab instead.

#smallWeb #indieWeb #ssg #HUGO

Screengrab of the blog post linked in this mastodon post. It shows a closeup of a pink & pastel mechanical keyboard as a header image. Below, a pink colour bar saying robyns.space. A menu with home, posts, now, and about items. Headline: Creating my Site Theme from XMin author: robyn :: 06 Aug 2025 tags: smallweb, indieweb, blog, hugo, theme, css Why my Own Theme? When I settled on as the static generator for my first stab at a 2025-era small/indie web site, I was slowly but surely reminded of how no, you can't in fact just build a HUGO site without a theme. Whether or not that is the way to go (I would argue that it is not; see also Bruce Wray’s excellent article on ), that's where we are. I would prefer if a Hugo site worked without a theme - if it spit out barebones HTML, basically - and we could just slap