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In the last few months, there has been a flurry of activity around personal blogs and owning your own data, since Musk took the reins of Twitter.

With that, a lot of people have been wondering how they can start their own websites. Since re-launching my website, I’ve had people ask me how they can make their own website in the last few weeks. To avoid repeating myself, I’ve put together a guide on how you can build a website using Hugo and GitHub Pages.

Other guides exist, but this one covers how I’ve set up my website in a simple and easy-to-follow guide.

Time and time again, we are shown that we cannot rely on third-party platforms to host our content.

The internet is constantly changing and with that, the platforms that host our content are constantly in flux. Platforms can fall just as quickly as they can rise, either by just going completely offline or by making drastic changes to how people interact with content on their site/platform.

There are countless examples of this happening in the past and more recently the 2022 Twitter meltdown has led to some massive changes. One of these changes is that the newsletter platform Twitter acquired just two years ago, Revue is now shutting down.

Digital platforms are fragile