Tech Trail Pulse

Source for Tech Trail Pulse — a Hugo-powered personal site with blog posts, interactive puzzle tools, and curated hobby pages.

Website

• Live site: techtrailpulse.com

Tech Stack

• Hugo static site generator (0.160.1 in CI)
• Blowfish Hugo theme (Git submodule)
• Markdown content with Hugo shortcodes and custom HTML blocks
• GitHub Actions for build/deploy to GitHub Pages
• Google Analytics (gtag) via custom head partial

What's Included on the Site

• Home / Trail Notes landing page
• Posts section with articles and interactive puzzle/game pages, including:
  • Interactive Latin Squares
  • Beehive Hidato Gameplay
  • Classic & Interactive 15 Puzzle pages
  • Classic Sudoku Web App
  • Interactive Tower of Hanoi
  • Interactive Word Search
  • Pascal’s Triangle Learning Tool
• About page
• Reading Trail (book gallery / reading list)
• Puzzlemania (puzzle and LEGO architecture galleries)
• RSS and JSON outputs for the home page

Local Development

1. Clone the repository.
2. Initialize the theme submodule:

   git submodule update --init --recursive

3. Run Hugo locally:

   hugo server -D

4. Build production output:

   hugo --gc --minify

Deployment

Deployments are handled by GitHub Actions (.github/workflows/pages.yml) on pushes to main.