Turning off Google Analytics for Local Hugo Server

April 3, 2020

TL;DR: If using Google Analytics, most Hugo themes load the tracking script even when running locally. This causes a bunch of bogus page views when writing a new article. Creating separate config files for development and production is an easy way to fix this.

Whoops… that’s me visiting my site on localhost

CI/CD for this site (Hugo + Cloud Build)

February 21, 2020

TL;DR: Configuring Cloud Build to automatically handle Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment for this site based on Git triggers ended up being a bit trickier than I would have expected.

The Making of This Site (Hugo, Caddy, + GCP)

February 20, 2020

Alternate title: Just use Netlify.

TL;DR: Deploy a Hugo site to GCP for free in less time than it will take you to read this article (Github Repo with all referenced commands)