Henkka Laukka Personal Website

A personal portfolio website built with Hugo and hosted at henkkalaukka.fi.

Overview

This repository contains the complete source code for a customized Hugo-based personal website featuring a blog, poetry gallery, and an interactive book tracker. The site is automatically built and deployed to Hetzner via CI/CD pipeline whenever changes are pushed to the main branch.

Tech Stack

• Static Site Generator: Hugo (Extended version)
• Base Theme: Nightfall (heavily customized)
• Styling: Dart Sass for SCSS compilation
• Deployment: GitHub Actions → FTP to Hetzner
• Book Management: Python Flask application

Features

📝 Blog

A custom blog section with personalized layout and styling for articles and posts.

🖼️ Poems Gallery

An interactive poetry gallery featuring:

• Responsive modal layout
• Mobile-optimized viewing experience
• Clean presentation of poems

📚 Book Tracker Gallery

A custom-built book tracking system displaying your reading history:

• Sleek gallery layout showcasing book covers
• Dynamically fetches book metadata from /data/books.json
• Ground-up custom implementation with custom styling and functionality

🎨 Custom Theme Modifications

The base Nightfall theme has been extensively modified with custom layouts, components, and styling to match the personal branding and feature requirements.

Project Structure

├── .github/workflows # github actions deployment
├── archetypes/ # Page archetypes for hugo
├── content/ # Markdown source files for all pages
├── data/ # books.json file for book tracker data
├── layouts/ # Custom Hugo templates
├── static/ # Static assets
│ └── blogi/ # Blog images
│ └── books/ # Book cover images
│ └── lyhkarit/ # Book "review" images
│ └── screenshots/ # Blog screenshot images
├── themes/ # Hugo themes (Nightfall base)
└── book-manager/ # Python book management application

Book Manager

A Python-based management tool for maintaining your book collection:

Features

• Add new books to your collection
• Manage all book metadata and properties
• Web-based interface running on localhost:5555
• Automatically updates /data/books.json

Getting Started

1. Install Python onto your machine (instructions elsewhere)
2. Run the app with pythin app.py
3. Access the interface at http://localhost:5555
4. Use the UI to add and manage books
5. Manual step: Add corresponding book cover images to /static/books/ directory