This very site! A personal developer portfolio and blog, rebuilt from scratch with Hugo and the PaperMod theme.
Goals
- Clean, developer-friendly aesthetic with dark/light mode
- Bilingual content (English and Russian) with proper language switching
- Projects showcase and blog posts
- Low maintenance, fully static hosting on Netlify
Technical Highlights
- Hugo static site generator with PaperMod theme
- Multilingual setup with
defaultContentLanguageInSubdir - Page bundles for posts and projects (images co-located with content)
- Custom CSS overrides for typography and spacing
- Disqus comments integration
Notes of interest
- Long time ago this site was started as a collaborative Drupal-based blog with posts by yours truly and several talented authors, had quite a readership of something like 30-40K monthly visitors around 2009.
- Unfortunately later it got neglected for some years and hacked by some spammers. In the end cleaning, fixing and upgrading it didn’t feel like something you’d enjoy, so I rebooted it as mostly a personal site with just few good posts surviving from the old times.
- Moved to static site - no scalability and almost no maintenance issues, yey!
- Guest bloggers are still very welcome