apurva-tech-blog

Apurva’s Tech Blog:

A modern, fast, and beautiful blog powered by Hugo and hosted on Cloudflare Pages.

📚 About

This blog is dedicated to sharing insights on technology, artificial intelligence, and innovation. Built with Hugo and the PaperMod theme for optimal performance and readability.

🚀 Getting Started

Local Development

# Install Hugo (if not already installed)
# macOS: brew install hugo
# Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt-get install hugo
# Windows: choco install hugo

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/apurvagupta123/apurva-tech-blog.git
cd apurva-tech-blog

# Initialize submodules for the theme
git submodule update --init --recursive

# Start the development server
hugo server

# Visit http://localhost:1313

Creating a New Post

hugo new content/posts/your-post-title.md

Then edit the markdown file and set draft: false when ready to publish.

📝 Blog Post Format

---
title: "Your Post Title"
date: 2026-04-23
draft: false
tags: ["tag1", "tag2"]
categories: ["Category"]
description: "Brief description of your post"
---

# Your Post Title

Your content goes here...

🌐 Deployment

This blog is automatically deployed to Cloudflare Pages whenever you push to the main branch.

Setup Cloudflare Pages

  1. Go to https://dash.cloudflare.com
  2. Navigate to Pages → Create a project
  3. Connect to Git and select this repository
  4. Build settings:
    • Framework: Hugo
    • Build command: hugo
    • Build output: public
  5. Add environment variable: HUGO_VERSION: 0.121.0
  6. Add custom domain: theapurva.com

🎨 Theme

This blog uses the PaperMod theme - a fast, minimal, and clean theme for Hugo.

📂 Directory Structure

apurva-tech-blog/
├── content/
│   └── posts/        # Blog posts
├── themes/
│   └── PaperMod/     # Hugo theme
├── static/           # Static files (images, etc.)
├── .github/
│   └── workflows/    # GitHub Actions
├── config.toml       # Hugo configuration
└── README.md         # This file

🔧 Configuration

Edit config.toml to customize:

📧 Contact

Reach out on GitHub or through the blog!

Happy blogging! 🚀