Alright - I’ve got a basic website set up and working!
I grabbed this domain a while ago, in December 2025 with the intention of getting a simple website going. Along with an email domain as well (eventually). I set this website up in a burst of motivation. My goal was to keep things simple, understandable, and flexible as far as technology and platform.
I landed on Hugo for static site generation, and hugo-coder as my initial theme. Hosting is through github pages and my github account. I wanted to learn as much as possible through the process so I stayed away from a managed website service.
I’m using Porkbun as the domain registrar and for managing DNS. Pointing DNS to the github site was quick using Porkbun’s built in DNS settings for github pages.
After getting the website up last week, I fell into a bit of a homelab wormhole. Nothing crazy, but I learned a lot about networking while setting up pihole and DNS for my local home network. More on that in another post.