Making a static site searchable

My site is getting pretty big now! 50+ posts, plus my journal entries from years past, I have content stretching over 4 years. So I started thinking about ways to add search functionality. And anyone who knows me knows I like to make these kind of things more complicated than they need to be, so with that in mind I had a fun challenge to solve. How do I add search functionality to a static site? ...

July 23, 2017 · 13 min · 2639 words · Gordon Burgett

Migrating to Node

So I wanted an app server. How hard could it be right? Well, not really that hard at all. I was tired of having a static site served by apache. I want to do some cool stuff with the google APIs, like maybe a form submit where the results end up in a google doc for me. To do that I need more than hugo’s static site generation. But I didn’t want to get rid of hugo because I like a lot of it’s features, so I added nodejs on top of it as the application server. ...

April 10, 2015 · 4 min · 654 words · Gordon Burgett