Session brief — Deployment and domain connection

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Session brief — 23 June 2026

Covers Phase 6 (making the site live via automated deployment) and Phase 7 (connecting the custom domain). Written to be re-read cold: each section states what was done, why, and what it means.

Starting point

The site existed as source files in a GitHub repository (niallgriffin90-ai/niallgriffin90-ai.github.io) but was not yet being served on the internet. The goal today was to make it build and publish automatically, then attach the real domain griffinai.dev.

Session brief — Site setup and first push

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.