Why I Killed My About Page

This is my first post. It was supposed to be my second. My very first post should have been the “About” page. It’s the standard, simple, “Hello, this is who I am” page that every blog is supposed to have. But I deleted it. I killed it before this blog ever saw the light of day. This isn’t a great start, but it was a necessary one. This Was Supposed to Be Easy My goal was simple: set up a personal blog using the “golden stack” of modern static sites: Hugo (as the engine), the hugo-paper theme (for the clean look), Git, and Cloudflare Pages (for fast, free, global hosting). ...

September 14, 2025 · 3 min · Frank