Before Angular team decided to turn the its community upside down with the release of Angular 2 in 2016, I did not think Typescript would take off beyond a small loyal group. Having been developed internally my Microsoft, the open source community was wary. But then, the unlikely thing happened, Microsoft and Google joined forces to create Angular (2…) with TypeScript support out of the box. By default. You can imagine this gave TypeScript a strong boost in popularity. Source: Google Trends for TypeScript Read more

Summary I decided to give blogging a try. I setup the most cost-effective solution I could come up with; static-html hosting on cloud blob-storage. Initially I tried using Jekyll to generate my static pages, but due to the clunky tooling available (especially on Windows) I looked for other solutions. That is when I found Hugo. They have great documentation, modern CLI and great tooling, regardless of your OS preference. Since I already have a Microsoft Azure account, I decided to host my static files there. Here is how I set-up my blog, from Hugo installation on Windows to publishing to the cloud. Read more