I've moved my blog on kayondata.com to Hashnode!
Moved my blog from Hugo to Hashnode
Kay Sauter has been working with SQL Server since 2013. His expertise covers SQL Server, Azure, Data Visualization, and Power BI. He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. Kay blogs on kayondata.com and is actively involved in various community projects like Data TGIF, databash.live, data-conference.ch, and Data Platform Data Platform DEI Virtual Group. He is based in Zurich, Switzerland and in his free time, together with his wife, he loves to travel to discover new cultures and perspectives.
I was actually quite happy with Hugo CMS, for it is a great blog system. Unlike the most popular CMS out here, it doesn’t really need any frequent updates to be secure. It uses Markdown which I love, and I love to use within my favorite code editor, VSCode. However, Hugo had its downsides. Because you have to start a server on your computer to see its results, you always had to use something like hugo -D etc. and remember how to create a new blog with something like hugo new content content/posts/my-first-post.md, actually a quite good idea. I would, however, always forget how to create a new post and have to wait to see the post in the browser. Lastly, with Github Actions, I would have to patiently wait until it is uploaded. I was quite liking it however. The reason I made the switch though were two things: I somehow messed up my repo, possibly due to the Hugo generator update (the software you install on your laptop locally). Secondly, I actually wanted to have a blog that people could add comments to, and a subscription newsletter. The comment part could have been solved with Github, but it is convoluted to create and depends on the template you use. The newsletter part however, was much trickier. Some were quite expensive, others had strange limitations. With Hashnode, I finally found something that solves both problems, and even a very nice, easy to use workflow for blogging. I even can use Github again here, I am using it for backing up my blogs. The domain is the same as before: kayondata.com.
The move was quite easy, especially with the great support by Hashnode! I received the answers to my questions within a few hours in most cases, but never more a half day!
So if you are looking for a possibility for a newsletter outside of my LinkedIn Newsletter, you can now use Hashnode to subscribe to my posts. Additionally, you can use RSS here, too.
I hope you will subscribe to both my newsletters, on kayondata.com and on LinkedIn.
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