https://royalvarez.dev/Recent content on Roy CodesHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usFri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://royalvarez.dev/page/contact/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://royalvarez.dev/page/contact/Contact You can contact me through email: hello@royalvarez.dev. Alternatively, you can find me on Discord. My username is westernc3.https://royalvarez.dev/post/intro/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:18:56 -0500https://royalvarez.dev/post/intro/Hello World: An Introduction This is my first ever post on my blog. While I still have the halo atop of my head, I’d like to introduce you to me and the plans I have with the blog. New phone, who dis? I am Roy, a blind Texan who has recently picked up computer programming - and I don’t think I am dropping it “till death do us part.” But more on that later.https://royalvarez.dev/page/about/Fri, 03 Apr 2015 02:13:50 +0000https://royalvarez.dev/page/about/About Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean nec dolor in magna lobortis egestas. Suspendisse eu erat tempor, tristique neque eu, convallis nulla. Curabitur vel bibendum lacus, at semper mauris. Suspendisse aliquet commodo ex, sed sagittis metus aliquam id. Maecenas feugiat rutrum lorem vel imperdiet. Nullam ornare lectus ut enim finibus, et porttitor mi tincidunt. Aenean lacinia, leo quis vehicula eleifend, quam libero sagittis erat, at euismod augue mauris et sapien.https://royalvarez.dev/post/creating-a-new-theme/Sun, 28 Sep 2014 02:13:50 +0000https://royalvarez.dev/post/creating-a-new-theme/Introduction This tutorial will show you how to create a simple theme in Hugo. I assume that you are familiar with HTML, the bash command line, and that you are comfortable using Markdown to format content. I’ll explain how Hugo uses templates and how you can organize your templates to create a theme. I won’t cover using CSS to style your theme. We’ll start with creating a new site with a very basic template.https://royalvarez.dev/post/goisforlovers/Wed, 02 Apr 2014 02:13:50 +0000https://royalvarez.dev/post/goisforlovers/Hugo uses the excellent go html/template library for its template engine. It is an extremely lightweight engine that provides a very small amount of logic. In our experience that it is just the right amount of logic to be able to create a good static website. If you have used other template systems from different languages or frameworks you will find a lot of similarities in go templates. This document is a brief primer on using go templates.https://royalvarez.dev/post/migrate-from-jekyll/Wed, 02 Apr 2014 02:13:50 +0000https://royalvarez.dev/post/migrate-from-jekyll/Move static content to static Jekyll has a rule that any directory not starting with _ will be copied as-is to the _site output. Hugo keeps all static content under static. You should therefore move it all there. With Jekyll, something that looked like ▾ <root>/ ▾ images/ logo.png should become ▾ <root>/ ▾ static/ ▾ images/ logo.png Additionally, you’ll want any files that should reside at the root (such as CNAME) to be moved to static.https://royalvarez.dev/post/hugoisforlovers/Wed, 02 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://royalvarez.dev/post/hugoisforlovers/Step 1. Install Hugo Goto hugo releases and download the appropriate version for your os and architecture. Save it somewhere specific as we will be using it in the next step. More complete instructions are available at installing hugo Step 2. Build the Docs Hugo has its own example site which happens to also be the documentation site you are reading right now. Follow the following steps: Clone the hugo repository Go into the repo Run hugo in server mode and build the docs Open your browser to http://localhost:1313 Corresponding pseudo commands: