This website is created using Hugo, the static site generator. I use Markdown for the posts. These posts exist in a Github repository. Github Actions then makes sure the site gets generated and deployed every time I make a commit. However, for a new post I have to open my code editor and start writing in Markdown. This can be a hassle sometimes. It would be great if there was a way to create new posts without having to open my code editor.

It is quite straightforward to set the cover image in Hugo’s Ananke theme. We store an image in the images folder of a post and set the featured_image variable to the images/cover.jpg path. The folder structure for a post then looks like this: content - posts - first-post - images - cover.jpg - index.md And the post’s front matter image/svg+xml in first-post/index.md would look like this: