Today’s enterprises are hindered by accumulated technical debt. The prospect of reengineering a monolithic software base is often judged as too risky, too difficult, and just not urgent right now.
Works@Scale assists enterprises in reengineering legacy software using low-risk methods. Our goal is to replace the current monolith with smaller, loosely coupled systems that are:
Works@Scale’s website was originally hosted on Namecheap shared hosting, using their cPanel tool, deployed by zipping/compressing local files and uploading manually. This note documents the migration to a git-based, automatically-deployed setup in August 2026.
Source control. Created a public GitHub repository (rjhintz/worksatscale) in a largely dormant GitHub account and moved the Hugo site source there, replacing the desktop-only workflow. The Hugo files were created by an earlier AI-assisted migration from WordPress.
A step-by-step reference for adding a new technical note to the site.
This site is built with Hugo, a free to use, open source tool that converts plain text files into HTML.
Instead of writing HTML directly, you write in Markdown, the same formatting language used in note-taking apps like Obsidian, Bear, and Typora. Hugo converts from Markdown to HTML during the automated build that runs after a “push,” not as you write. The “push” sends saved, finished work, called commits, to a repository, a “repo,” on GitHub.
Moving from theme-defaults to custom layouts allows for precise control over typography and imagery, specifically regarding legibility in high-contrast environments.