My New Website — How I Built It

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0400

Hugo + Hextra on Netlify, three languages, and every tool and task driven by mise — modelled on Fabio Akita's blog, with Python instead of Ruby.

This site is built the same way as Fabio Akita’s blog (source), with two changes: the helper scripts are Python instead of Ruby, and mise controls everything — tool versions, the Python environment and every task.

The stack

Hugo turns Markdown into static HTML. No database, no server.
Hextra is the theme: dark mode, search (Ctrl K), tags, RSS and code highlighting.
Netlify builds and publishes on every push to main.
mise pins Hugo, Go and Python, so my laptop, GitHub Actions and Netlify run exactly the same versions.

Three languages

Each post is one folder with one file per language:

content/2026/10/30/new-website-how-i-built-it/
├── index.en.md → /en/2026/10/30/my-new-website-how-i-built-it/
├── index.es.md → /es/2026/10/30/mi-nueva-web-como-la-hice/
└── index.pt-br.md → /pt-br/2026/10/30/meu-novo-site-como-eu-fiz/

Hugo links the translations, so the language switch takes you to the same post.

The workflow

mise install # Hugo, Go, Python
mise run setup # Python deps
mise run new "Post title" # creates the 3 language files as drafts
mise run tags:search "ai" # reuse existing tags
mise run dev # http://localhost:1313/en/
mise run check # what CI runs: tags, indexes, tests, build
git push # Netlify publishes

The home page and the archive are generated by scripts/generate_index.py (Akita’s generate_index.rb, ported), and scripts/tag_catalog.py keeps tags consistent across the three languages.

Hello World!

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0400

First post: who I am, why I made this website, and what I'm going to write about here.

Hello world! 👋

Every developer writes this line in the first program. So this is my first program for this website.

I’m Carlos Augusto. I live in Michigan and I lead cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, operations and AI at Stefanini’s Global Technology Office, helping companies take AI out of the slides and put it into real operations. Before that I spent more than ten years in São Paulo building payment systems, leading teams and being the last person to call when something broke in production. Even at 3 a.m.

Why a website now? Because I wanted a place that is mine. LinkedIn is good for a quick post, but some ideas need more space than that, and I want to keep everything I write in one place.

What you will find here:

AI in the real world. What works in companies and what doesn’t, with SAP, automation and data.
Building products and teams. From the problem statement to running in production.
Career and mentoring. What I learned, and what I wish someone told me earlier.
Some off-topic too. Jiu-Jitsu, games, investing and a few crazy ideas. Why not? 😂

I write in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Pick your language in the menu. If a translation sounds strange, tell me.

My advice is the same I always give: learn AI, find good partners and go for it. And if you want to talk about any of this, reach out. I’m here 🙃

Welcome!

Carlos on Dev

My New Website — How I Built It

The stack

Three languages

The workflow

Hello World!