http://insights.brianli.net/Recent content on Brian Li - InsightsHugoen-usTue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://insights.brianli.net/posts/hello-world/Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://insights.brianli.net/posts/hello-world/<p>Welcome to my blog! Rather than just saying &ldquo;hello,&rdquo; I figured the first post should actually be useful — so here&rsquo;s a full breakdown of how this site was built and deployed.</p> <h2 id="the-tech-stack">The Tech Stack</h2> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Layer</th> <th>Tool</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Static site generator</td> <td><a href="https://gohugo.io/">Hugo</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Theme</td> <td><a href="https://github.com/vaga/hugo-theme-m10c">m10c</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Hosting</td> <td><a href="https://pages.github.com/">GitHub Pages</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>CI/CD</td> <td><a href="https://github.com/features/actions">GitHub Actions</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Dev environment</td> <td><a href="https://github.com/features/codespaces">GitHub Codespaces</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Custom domain</td> <td><code>blog.brianli.net</code> via DNS CNAME</td> </tr> <tr> <td>TLS</td> <td>Let&rsquo;s Encrypt (auto-provisioned by GitHub)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Total cost: <strong>$0</strong> (aside from the domain itself).</p>