To begin working on the blog, I needed to install Hugo first. My laptop runs Pop_OS!, a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. There are quite a few ways to install Hugo and I chose to install the official package using apt-get. sudo apt-get install hugo Once the installation was complete, I verified that it completed successfully. hugo version As shown in the screenshot below, Hugo version 0.74.3 installed successfully on my machine....

My wife and I have always wanted to work on an online project together. She is creative, and I can figure out technology. A multitude of reasons pushed us to start a blog in early 2021. My hunger for a software-dev-related side project A desire to digitize our growing three-ring recipe binder Repeated requests for the same recipes (mostly Thai Red Curry and Butter Chicken) from friends and family It was easy to devise requirements as we thought through different features (blog setup, adding posts and pictures, monetization, etc....