---
title: "Session: gentle-planning-hopper — 2026-04-03"
type: source
tags: [claude-code, session-transcript, demo, research]
date: 2026-04-03
source_file: raw/sessions/demo-beta/2026-04-03-gentle-planning-hopper.md
sessionId: demo-beta-001
slug: gentle-planning-hopper
project: demo-beta
started: 2026-04-03T10:00:00+00:00
ended: 2026-04-03T10:48:21+00:00
cwd: /Users/USER/Desktop/demo-beta
gitBranch: main
permissionMode: plan
model: claude-opus-4-6
user_messages: 5
tool_calls: 3
tools_used: [WebSearch, Read, Write]
is_subagent: false
---

# Session: gentle-planning-hopper — 2026-04-03

**Project:** `demo-beta` · **Branch:** `main` · **Mode:** `plan` · **Model:** `claude-opus-4-6`

**Stats:** 5 user messages, 3 tool calls, tools used: WebSearch, Read, Write.

## Conversation

### Turn 1 — User

I want to build a small static blog generator in Go. Just markdown → HTML, no fancy features. What's the simplest approach?

### Turn 1 — Assistant

A Go static blog generator with only markdown → HTML can be done in under 200 lines. The minimum ingredients are:

1. **Markdown parser** — `github.com/gomarkdown/markdown` is the standard choice. Actively maintained, no cgo, GoldMark is an alternative if you want CommonMark strictness.
2. **Frontmatter parser** — either parse YAML yourself from the `---` delimited header, or use `github.com/adrg/frontmatter`.
3. **Template rendering** — `html/template` from stdlib handles safe HTML rendering with zero dependencies.
4. **File walker** — `filepath.WalkDir` from stdlib for reading a `content/` directory.

The overall flow is: walk `content/`, parse each `.md` file's frontmatter, render the body through the markdown parser, pass the result to an `html/template`, write to `public/`.

### Turn 2 — User

Check what the most recent active projects look like.

### Turn 2 — Assistant

**Tools used:**

- `WebSearch`: `minimal Go static site generator 2026`

**Tool results:**

Hugo, Zola, Eleventy dominate the space, but there are a handful of minimal Go alternatives. Notable minimal ones in 2026:

- `pelle-fk/tinysg` — 180 LoC, markdown + frontmatter + one template
- `geekgonecrazy/gosg` — slightly larger but still under 500 LoC
- `haahnah/minimd` — 120 LoC, no frontmatter support (just markdown)

Most of the "complete" generators (Hugo, Zola) are 50k+ LoC. The minimal tier is a huge gap you could fill.

### Turn 3 — User

Draft a directory layout and a list of the first 5 Go files I should write.

### Turn 3 — Assistant

**Tools used:**

- `Write`: `/Users/USER/Desktop/demo-beta/PLAN.md` (748 chars)

```markdown
# demo-beta — minimal Go static blog generator

## Directory layout

    demo-beta/
    ├── cmd/
    │   └── blog/
    │       └── main.go          # CLI entry
    ├── internal/
    │   ├── content/
    │   │   └── content.go       # frontmatter + markdown parsing
    │   ├── render/
    │   │   └── render.go        # html/template rendering
    │   └── walk/
    │       └── walk.go          # filepath.WalkDir wrapper
    ├── content/                 # user's markdown content
    ├── templates/               # user's html/template files
    ├── public/                  # output (gitignored)
    └── go.mod

## First 5 files

1. go.mod — `go mod init github.com/USER/demo-beta`
2. cmd/blog/main.go — 30-line CLI with flag parsing for content/ and public/
3. internal/content/content.go — frontmatter splitter + gomarkdown wrapper
4. internal/walk/walk.go — recursive walk that yields (path, frontmatter, body)
5. internal/render/render.go — loads templates/ and renders one post per file
```

Plan written to `PLAN.md`. You can start with `cmd/blog/main.go` next session.

### Turn 4 — User

What should I call this?

### Turn 4 — Assistant

For a "minimal Go static blog generator" in that tier, nameable options:

- **`stilo`** — stylo + stilo + style, short, available on pkg.go.dev
- **`gomik`** — go + mik(ro), easy to type
- **`minpost`** — mini + post
- **`brief`** — the genre (brief blogs), one word
- **`slat`** — short, evokes "slate" + "stat(ic)"

My vote: **`stilo`**. It's 5 letters, pronounceable, and the `.dev` + `.io` are both free to register.

### Turn 5 — User

Locked, stilo it is.

### Turn 5 — Assistant

Decision locked: the project name is **stilo**. Next session we can update `go.mod` to `github.com/USER/stilo` and start on `cmd/stilo/main.go`.