Brahma
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.