A couple of days ago I did create my new academic website from Jekyll static site generator (SSG) to zola. I very much like how simple and better the UX of zola in comparison. I was using hugo for the blog with my modified bearblog hugo theme.

So I spent a couple of hours on porting the same theme and the blog content to zola I did some modifications because I felt it is better like in page navigation. Away from these small changes, everything should be the same.

Now I don't have to worry about either Jekyll or Hugo (or worse both) breaking changes and how GitHub actions will have problems from time with time. Now I have everything in zola and have unified UX of updating both my academic website and blog.

I wrote my github action for building and running zola because I wouldn't repeat the mistake of depending on others actions. Right now I feel happy and that although visually the blog is the same but I feel that things is better now.