dylanberry.com

Personal brand website and blog built with Hugo, a custom dark theme, and agentic development workflows.

Overview

This website, built from scratch with an agentic development workflow. It’s a Hugo-powered static site with a custom theme, a Markdown blog, and a simple project archive.

Technical Details

  • Generator: Hugo (static site generator)
  • Theme: Custom-built with CSS custom properties, responsive grid, and scroll animations
  • Hosting: Dreamhost shared hosting (static files)
  • Content: Markdown with front matter
  • Design: Dark theme with indigo/pink accent palette

Key Features

  • Fully responsive design (mobile-first)
  • SEO optimized with Open Graph and Twitter cards
  • RSS feed for blog posts
  • Fast load times (static HTML, minimal JS)
  • Clean typography with Inter and JetBrains Mono
  • Accessible navigation with semantic HTML

Built With

The site went from an empty directory to a working first version in a single build session. Read the case study for more detail.