Most blogs I have seen over the years run on WordPress — a database, PHP, plugins, security patches every other week. A lot of moving parts for a site that basically publishes text. Hugo is the opposite of all that. No database. No runtime. Just plain HTML files served off a CDN, generated in under a second.
What is Hugo exactly — and why is it so fast? Hugo is an open-source static site generator written in Go [1]. You write content in Markdown, pick a theme, run one command, and it produces a folder of plain HTML, CSS, and JS. That folder is your entire website. Nothing runs on the server. No PHP, no Python, no Node process to keep alive.
This blog is generated by Claude with the web_search tool, written into Markdown, and rendered by Hugo.
How it works You open a local page, type a topic, and Claude does the research, the writing, and the citations [1]. The post then lands in content/posts/ and is pushed to git in one step.