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Building This Site with Go, Templ, and HTMX

April 6, 2026
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Why Rebuild?

My old portfolio was a Next.js static export. It worked, but it felt like shipping a tank to deliver a letter. For a personal site with mostly static content, I wanted something leaner.

Go + Templ + HTMX gives me:

  • Type-safe templates that compile to Go code
  • Server-side rendering with no client-side framework
  • HTMX for the few interactive bits, without shipping a JS bundle
  • A single binary I can deploy anywhere

The Stack

The site is built with:

  • Go 1.25 with the standard library net/http router
  • Templ for HTML components
  • HTMX for dynamic interactions
  • Tailwind CSS v4 compiled via the standalone CLI

Blog posts are markdown files embedded into the binary at build time and parsed with Goldmark.

What's Next

I'm planning to write more about the robotics work I've been doing at Muskoka Cabinets, and some thoughts on TypeScript vs Go developer experience from building SousChef.

Stay tuned.