Markdown Is Life

Some years ago, I made a website for me, to show my abilities… and I was frustrated!

I was wasting too much time trying to styling my website, and my main focus at the time was backend developing, so my website was an ugly mix of bootstrap and infantile HTML. That site was created in a home server that was exposed to the internet using ngrok.

Some days ago I decided to make a more professional website for me, and I stumbled with a tool called Hugo. I was mesmerized with the easiness to create a website using Markdown, and I decided to give a try.

The syntax of Markdown is easy enough to write focusing more on the content and less in the style of your site. Creating a page in hugo is as easy as writing in Markdown:

---
title: "Markdown Is Life"
date: 2022-12-23T22:32:35-03:00
draft: false
---

Some years ago, I made a website for me, to show my abilities... and I was frustrated!

I was wasting too much time trying to styling my website, and my main focus at the time was backend developing, so my website was an ugly mix of bootstrap and infantile HTML. That site was created in a home server that was exposed to the internet using [ngrok](https://ngrok.com/).

I was instantly hooked on Markdown. I will learn more about Hugo and try to improve the presentation of this website. For now, the simple template I’m using is enough for me.