Brahma is a Hugo static site generator theme. The goal of the theme is to accomodate my blogging needs and to provide a platform to share my work and thoughts. It is build to be fast, minimal and accessible.

Technologies used

• HTML5
• Tailwind CSS
• Hugo

Design decisions

• Build for the long term.
• Aesthetics over over-engineering.
• Functionality over aesthetics
• Avoid unnecessary dependencies.
• Lighthouse scores are just the start.
• Maximum performance without compromising on funcionality and aesthetics.
• Least amount of JavaScript necessary.

History

https://www.unsungnovelty.org at the beginning used Cocoah-Enhanced as it’s theme. Brahma was born out of necessity to accomodate my needs for performance and functionalities. So far there has been 4 major iterations for Brahma.

• 1st iteration in wayback machine.
• 2nd iteration in wayback machine.
• 3rd iteration in wayback machine.
• 4th and present iteration.

Is Brahma open source?

No. This is to reduce the scope of the features and to make it easy to maintain - for now. As I get more time, I might make it open source.