[kactus]

I use Hugo for my blog and keep it NPM-free. I try to be careful with my dependencies (currently 3; 2 of which I maintain), which I manage using Hugo's modules feature and keep local copies using the `hugo mod vendor` command.

My posts are in Markdown files, and I write them using either my text editor or Typora, which is a little more WYSIWYG and makes adding images so much easier.

Hugo's archetypes feature is great: running `hugo new posts/title.md` quickly scaffolds a new post based on a template from a Markdown file, with frontmatter entered already, and then opens that Markdown file in Typora, ready to start writing (you can add your editor in Hugo's config). While it wouldn't be too difficult to make a script that does this, I loved having this out of the box.