Hugo

Static Site or CMS? How I Pick the Stack

Who publishes, what changes live, and whether you need logins pick static vs WordPress better than any framework ranking.

Open source wasn't a purity test for me. Freedom mattered more than free - install tonight, read the code, move your files, own the stack.

Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare Pages ship static sites for $0 - until build caps, queues, or account limits bite.

Charge for the build and pass-off; hosting is a clear line item, not a mystery bundle.

A git CMS commits markdown to the repo so clients get buttons while the same push-live build still runs.

I keep one clear claim per note page and let wikilinks plus /notes/ do the browsing.

My garden is where notes grow in public - linked, imperfect, alive on Hugo and Git.

Drafting in public keeps the garden honest with rough posts and feedback instead of private hoarding.

Future-proof notes with plain text, open tools, and exports tested before a vendor locks you in.

Hub notes get written by hand when one topic spreads across too many files to hold in memory.