hugomac

Hugomac is an osx menubar app to publish your blog directly to Amazon S3. It uses the wonderful Hugo static site generator to create your blog without having to touch a command line.

Here's the general idea:

• You keep a directory of (somewhat) publisher-agnostic markdown files in dropbox, git, iCloud or just sitting in your Documents folder
• You pick a folder where you have a hugo theme (maybe near your documents, maybe from git, it doesn't matter)
• You hugomac to generate your site and publish it to an S3 bucket which has website hosting turned on

That's it.

installation

• clone the source
• do a pod install to get the deps from Cocoapods
• open the .xcworkspace file and build/run

S3 setup

• create an S3 bucket and enable it for website hosting
• get some S3 credentials that have write access to that bucket

content setup

• make a new folder and create some posts with this front matter format

theme setup

• find a hugo theme, download it to a folder

hugomac setup

• pick your content directory in hugomac preferences
• pick your theme directory in hugomac preferences
• configure hugomac with the bucket name and credentials

Publish!