nuno

Welcome to nuno

Mon, 04 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000

nuno is a Hugo theme for people who write. It has one typeface, four palettes, a single accent colour, and no third-party requests at all. The home page you arrived on is the whole design argument: a masthead that types itself, a column of numbered cards, and nothing else competing for attention.

What you get

The parts worth knowing about, in rough order of how often you will touch them:

The Quiet Machine

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Because status is Reading, this book floats to the front of the shelf, gets an accent ring and a badge on the grid, and shows a “Reading now” marker here.

It has no rating, so the stars are omitted entirely rather than rendered empty — a book you have not finished has not been judged yet.

Four Palettes, One Accent

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

The theme has two colour switches and they are independent of each other. That is the only unusual thing about its palette system, and it is worth five minutes of explanation because almost every customisation question turns out to be about it.

The two switches

Theme is light or dark, toggled by the ☾/☀ button in the nav. Ground is brown or green, toggled from the footer. Neither knows about the other, so the combinations are:

The Pragmatic Shelf

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A finished book with a full rating and a Goodreads link. The cover, the stars, the facts list and the link all sit in the column a post would use for its table of contents, and your notes run full width underneath.

Notes

Headings work in book notes exactly as they do in a post, so a long set of notes can be structured rather than one block of prose.

The Image Pipeline

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000

Of everything the theme does for performance, the image pipeline earns the most. One post in early testing went from 2.5 MB and a 12.9 second load to 118 KB and 533 ms, and nothing changed about it except how the images were processed.

What happens to an image

Write an ordinary Markdown image and a render hook intercepts it:

markdown

![A build-time processed image](images/example-figure.png)

Example Professional Certification

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The body of a certification page is ordinary Markdown, so this is the place for what the credential actually meant rather than what the syllabus said.

Everything else on this page — the issuer kicker, the badge, the dates, the facts list and the verify button — comes from the certMeta block in the front matter.

Kitchen Sink: Every Prose Element

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0000

A worked example, written as an ordinary post, so that every prose element the theme styles appears at least once on one page. The story is invented; the markup is not.

It was past midnight and the automation pipeline had crashed. Again. It had been failing for days — same pattern, same timing, always when the network got serious. And the diagnosis had finally turned up.

The symptom

Every time the pipeline pulled a large image, the node went NotReady. Not slowly. Instantly.

Notes on Simplicity

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Three stars out of five, no ISBN and no Goodreads link — so this page shows the partial star row and the shorter facts list you get when you only fill in what you actually know.

Example Associate Certification

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This one has no expiryDate, so the Expires row is simply absent — every fact in the list is optional and disappears when you omit it.

Example Foundations Certification

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A second issuer, so the list page has two groups to sort. Issuers are ordered by their most recent credential, which puts the track you are actively certifying on above the ones you have moved past.

This credential is also marked Expired and has no credentialUrl, so it loses the accent status pill and the verify button.

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is the About layout. It puts your prose and a couple of summary rows in the left column, and a portrait with a row of social icons on the right.

params.portrait is deliberately unset on this demo site, so what you see to the right is the empty frame. Point it at any image under assets/ or static/ and the theme resizes it to 800px wide, converts it to WebP, and emits real dimensions so the page never shifts as it loads.

Resume

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This page’s content is only used as a fallback. When data/resume.yaml exists the theme renders that instead, and this prose is ignored.

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

nuno

Welcome to nuno

What you get

The Quiet Machine

Four Palettes, One Accent

The two switches

The Pragmatic Shelf

Notes

The Image Pipeline

What happens to an image

Example Professional Certification

Kitchen Sink: Every Prose Element

The symptom

Notes on Simplicity

Example Associate Certification

Example Foundations Certification

About

Archive

Resume

Search