Session brief — Site setup and first push
Session brief — 16 June 2026 Scope: installing the toolchain, scaffolding the Hugo site, configuring it, adding the legal pages and post template, and pushing the source to GitHub under a separate identity. Covers Phases 1–5 of the build. Hugo Extended Hugo is a static site generator. Posts are written as plain Markdown files; Hugo converts them into a complete website (HTML and CSS) that any browser can serve. Hugo ships in two editions, standard and extended. The extended edition processes SCSS/Sass stylesheets, which most themes — including PaperMod — require. The standard edition fails on those themes with an SCSS error. Extended was installed. ...