For my new static website at Fastmail, I decided to use Hugo. It is a file-based framework that uses the Go template language, Markdown, and CSS. I’ve been developing it with Visual Studio Code using the Claude Sonnet 3.5 LLM assistant. There are many new-to-me concepts, so I decided the best way to learn it is to dive in and just build and iterate. I am a complete novice with much of this, so it’s been fun to experience the brilliance of the AI code assistant to quickly learn how to do things as well as debug problems. I’d conservatively estimate that I’m at least 10x more productive than the old “just Google around” paradigm of software development.