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Python to the Rescue
Data munging and more
I’m evaluating whether or not I should move this blog to another CMS platform so I can start building a community around it like it was before.
Right now this blog runs on Hugo and AWS Amplify and it’s freaking awesome. I push new posts to GitHub, AWS pulls the changes and rebuilds the site, and then I can look at make sure it looks fine before I merge into master.
Migrating between CMS platforms is always a tricky and pain-in-the-ass endeavor.
Cloudfront caches my images so load times are wicked fast (an SEO must) and Hugo is a dream to work with. In my humble opinion, it’s the best static CMS out there. Pelican might come in second, but Hugo just rocks and you can use it in a headless way too.
However, it’s static and there’s little I can do to integrate nicely to have things like member profiles or build a BuddyPress type of social networking site.
That said, I could do something like that with a separate technology like phpBB in the future. I could just create a subdomain like social.neuralmarkettreds.com and install a social networking platform there.
No matter what I choose to do (and Hugo is by far outweighing everything I’m looking at), I’ve been writing a lot…
