Projects
This site as a project Link to heading
This portfolio is a bit of a project in itself — just meta enough to deserve its own section.
The idea didn’t come from nowhere. A friend had already written up the approach on his blog:
DataDragons: Host your own website with Hugo, Github and Azure
That’s the serious version: how to put something affordable and fast online with Azure and a static site, without standing up a full heavyweight web stack.
I thought: good plan — but as the ultimate lazy move I didn’t follow it step by step by hand. Nope. I vibe-coded: editor open, AI in the loop, and my own fingers now and then for comic relief (and the commits that still have to come from somewhere).
What came out of it: Hugo, a theme that really wants to live as a git submodule, and GitHub Actions that sometimes whine louder than a kid without ice cream — think Docker, a container registry that suddenly says no, and an inbox that looked roughly like this:
In the end Azure Static Web Apps sighed and said: “okay, here’s your site.”
Want to try it yourself? Link to heading
If you want to do something similar without wading through all my in-jokes, there’s a generic guide: checklist-style, free to copy, adapt, and pass on.
If you share it: keep the DataDragons link above — that’s where the real thinking lives; I mostly documented the “what if we do it the lazy way?” experiment.