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Recently I was setting up some new CodePipeline’s and was wanting to get notification emails when they started and stopped. So I went ahead and used the standard CodePipeline notifications documented here. Once setting them up, I was very happy to see a massive blob of JSON coming through to my inbox - how helpful 🤦. I then started on the quest of getting “pretty” or formatted notification emails coming through to my inbox with the information that I wanted to see.

I recently decided to rebuild my personal website. I made the decision to use Hugo to build out the sites content. For more background on why I chose Hugo, you can read my previous post. I also made the decision to avoid using any server-side hosting. For all of the details around this decision, again, you could check out my previous post 😏. But the tl;dr of those reasons is: