Yes I have built this website.
It is definitely not an easy process though. I can confirm this because by the time this post is being written, the website itself has not been deployed yet. Well but I just want to briefly explain the reasons why I am putting this website up.
The most important reason is that I increasingly feel a need to host a place on the internet (not a typo) for me to outreach to other people. There are a few things that I would like to write a personal review for and of course share them with the online community. Basically, the internet hosts my information (perhaps too much of it) but in a very non-systematic manner. So this is the place where I would like to gather all the information and then share them with my readers. I also want a place that is truly my own to store my thoughts.
For technical information, this website is built with blogdown and Hugo, hosted on timingliu.com and deployed by netlify.
I built this site largely according to the kind advice from Alison. The only degression is that when RStudio stuck at the stage of creating a Hugo site in a git repository, I decided to first create the website (locally) then init a git repository in the local directory. Also, I think Yihui’s blogdown book is really worth reading (it’s free!) for anyone who wants to have a smoother journey in building their website.
