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Albin Cikaj

This Website

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Albin Cikaj
Building data pipelines and writing about what I learn along the way.
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Overview
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This site itself is a project worth documenting. It’s a statically generated portfolio and blog built with Hugo and the Blowfish theme, designed to be fast, minimal, and easy to maintain.

The goal: a place to document my projects, write about things I’m working through, and have a corner of the internet that’s mine — without the overhead of managing a CMS or a server.

Why Hugo
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  • Fast builds — Hugo compiles in milliseconds
  • No runtime dependencies — the output is pure HTML/CSS/JS
  • Markdown-first — writing content is just writing markdown files
  • Blowfish theme — modern, Tailwind-based, well-documented

Static sites make sense here. There’s no dynamic content, no user authentication, nothing that requires a server. The output can be deployed to any CDN.

Stack
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  • Static site generator: Hugo
  • Theme: Blowfish (Tailwind CSS)
  • Color scheme: Ocean (dark mode default)
  • Hosting: TBD (GitHub Pages / Cloudflare Pages / Netlify)

Structure
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content/
├── about/          # About page
├── projects/       # Portfolio projects (this is one of them)
└── blog/           # Blog posts

Each project is a self-contained directory with an index.md — this makes it easy to add images, data files, or other assets alongside the content.

Customization
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The main customization over the default Blowfish theme:

  • Navigation: Projects, Blog, About
  • Homepage layout: Profile with custom headline
  • Dark mode default with auto-switching
  • Card view on project listing

What I’d Do Differently
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  • Set up the content structure before touching config — I spent time debugging broken menu links that just needed the right directory to exist
  • Decide on the URL structure early (e.g. /projects/ vs /work/) before writing content