PBS Tidbit 15 — Building an Indie Author Site with Hugo by Eddie Tonkoi

About this episode

Eddie Tonkoi shares his experience of building an indie author site using Hugo.

This week, we have a guest contribution by the fabulous Eddie Tonkoi. He walks us through his journey to move his wife's book series website using a static site generator called Hugo. He hosts the generated files on GitHub and serves them (for free) through Cloudflare. You can find Eddie's fabulous tutorial shownotes and the audio podcast at pbs.bartificer.net . Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: PBS_2025_11_05 Join our Slack at podfeet.com/slack and look for the #pbs channel, and check out our pbs-student GitHub Organization . It's by invitation only, but all you have to do is ask Allison! Join the Conversation: allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/slack Support the Show: Patreon Donation Apple Pay or Credit Card one-time donation PayPal one-time donation Podfeet Podcasts Mugs at Zazzle NosillaCast 20th Anniversary Shirts Referral Links: Setapp - 1 month free for you and me PETLIBRO - 30% off for you and me Parallels Toolbox - 3 months free for you and me Learn through MacSparky Field Guides - 15% off for you and me Backblaze - One free month for me and you Eufy - $40 for me if you spend $200. Sadly nothing in it for you. PIA VPN - One month added to Paid…

People in this episode

Hosts: Allison Sheridan, Bart Busschots

Guest: Eddie Tonkoi

Topics covered

• static site generation
• Hugo
• indie author website
• GitHub
• Cloudflare

Keywords

• Hugo
• static site generator
• indie author
• website
• GitHub
• Cloudflare

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GitHub, Cloudflare, PBS

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