My resume lives in a git repo. Every time I push, a GitHub Action compiles it to PDF and drops it on a stable URL. No local toolchain needed after the initial setup, no manually uploading PDFs anywhere. Why LaTeX Word docs drift. PDFs exported from Google Docs look fine until they don’t. LaTeX gives me exact control over layout and is just a text file — diffable, versionable, no binary blobs. ...
derekwelty.com was a Bootstrap 5 single-page site built on the Start Bootstrap Freelancer template. It worked, but it hadn’t been touched in years and updating it required wading through jQuery, a Gulp pipeline, and a bunch of hand-rolled CSS. Time to replace it. The new stack: Hugo with the Congo theme, deployed to GitHub Pages via GitHub Actions. Why Hugo I already run this blog on Hugo + PaperMod via Netlify. The toolchain was familiar, the build times are fast, and Congo gave me a clean profile layout that actually looked like a personal site and not a blog template with the posts removed. ...