Migrated personal website from Jekyll to Hugo, replacing a stale Jekyll 3.6.3 + Minima stack (last updated ~2021, Ruby 2.3.1) with Hugo 0.160.1 + PaperMod theme, that is now deployed via GitHub Actions to GitHub Pages.
Key technical work:
- Built a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline for automated deployment on push to main; subsequently upgraded all actions to Node.js 24-compatible versions ahead of GitHub’s June 2026 forced cutover
- Implemented GLightbox for all post images. This auto-wires via JavaScript, no markup changes required per post, with “Photo by…” caption detection
- Designed and built a Projects content type from scratch: custom list and single-page templates, expandable/collapsible cards using native HTML
<details>/<summary>(no JS), thumbnail support with full-width banner and lightbox, and a reusable partial as a single source of truth across the home page and Projects page - Customized the home page with a Recent Projects section above the posts feed with both being driven by separate Hugo page queries
- Front matter supports link, LinkedIn, and post fields per project for flexible attribution
- Initial stand up of this website took an entire Saturday many years ago; working with Claude it was completely overhauled in ~1-2 hours