Ok, that was successful! I now have a Hugo site/directory set up on my Macbook, associated with a Github repo from which this site is built using Digital Ocean App Platform. Now I need to learn more about Hugo to determine the site appearance and writing and publishing workflow.

Hello world! If all goes well, I will have successfully published this post to my new essays site. Alright, this didn’t publish the first time, I think because I had draft set to true. Let’s try this again!