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From Gatsby to Hugo: Why I Finally Let Go

Avinash Rijal

• January 3, 2026 •

3 min read

Pretext Around 5–6 years ago, I stumbled upon GatsbyJS while searching for a JavaScript framework that could actually handle everything my personal blog needed: Markdown content Image optimization Static site generation At the time, Gatsby felt like a silver bullet. My prior experience with GraphQL fit perfectly into Gatsby’s mental model, and to this day I’ll argue that Gatsby’s image tooling was — and still is — top-tier. Back then, it solved problems most frameworks barely acknowledged.

From Clicks to Keystrokes: My Journey into the Vim

Avinash Rijal

• March 14, 2025 •

8 min read

#programming #vim #neovim #editor #productivity

Back in the days, it was somewhere around when I first started my developer career, I was a Sublime text fan, most of you may have never herd of it but it was like “winrar” which kept bugging you for activating it but never obstructed you from using it. It was a good time. I was happy and I was productive. Sometimes, I used to give jetbrains a try but it soon phased out after my crack stopped working and I as a junior developer didn’t have enough salary to pay for their plans while paying my rent.

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