Project Details

Status
ongoing
Epics
Make beautiful things 🖼️
Started
2026-01-04
Last worked on
2026-02-22, "Wrote documentation, small fixes and default homepage"
Total
37.00 h in 3 sessions

When creating this blog, I also decided to create my own theme minimal paper. At the beginning, I did not understand Hugo much and the blog was entangled with the theme and living in the same repo. The more I am maturing this site, I am also maturing the theme along with it. I want to set myself the goal of maturing it enough to feel good about it and then releasing it publically to be enjoyed by others.

For this, I set myself the following goal:

🎯
Pragmatic Definition of Done

Release minimal-paper as a theme for Hugo, accessible through public repository and added to Hugo’s theme list. For this, the following things need to happen:

  • Disentangle theme out of blog repository
  • Mature all layouts and partials
    • Homepage
    • Page
    • Section
    • Taxonomy
    • Term
  • Mature configuration options
    • Make color palette fully customizable
    • Make fonts be customizable
  • Write documentation
    • Getting started page
    • Reference page
    • Nice first Readme
  • Create public repository
    • Figure out license
    • Figure out included fonts
  • Figure out how to add it to Hugo’s themes

Progress until now

Most work has been done whenever I procrastinated doing other things and it has been documented in the roadmap on the minimal-paper page. As you can see there, it is some part working on the theme and its styling and to some degree it is not related to this projects pDoD and I just implemented nice shortcodes and features. For now, I set this project to paused to focus on other things. At this moment, I have other priorities.

/projects/06-publish-minimal-paper/

topics: web, tech