I have a Hugo blog with content in Ukrainian — posts, notes, articles, and a LiveJournal archive spanning 2007–2017. About 409 markdown files in total. And I’d long wanted to make an English version of it.

What would we do without updates.

How to make scaled-down images in Hugo?

A short note — a blog in Markdown powered by Hugo is simply a breath of fresh air after the sluggish browser-based Blogger. It renders instantly on the local machine, opens lightning-fast — including the already-published version — what a pleasure! (On top of that, it warms the soul to know the blog sits right here on my laptop and is not the property of Google.) The urge to write has come alive again.

Preamble#

For some reason, I felt like rebuilding my website by the end of 2023 — if before it just hosted the content of my blog (one of them), I wanted to turn it into a “typical” placeholder: a small static page (or a set of pages) with a collection of useful links to blogs, articles, maybe a GitHub or LinkedIn profile, and so on. What’s the best way to host something like that? GitHub Pages, of course — you write some markdown, push it to a repository, GitHub does its magic — and voilà, the site is ready. Minimum effort, maximum result, especially since https://disfinder.github.io had already existed for some time, hosting various notes I made for myself.