Colophon — How TechFuel HQ Is Built

What this page is

A public record of the publishing stack, sourcing approach, and editorial rules every article has to clear before it ships. The short version is on the About page. This is the long version with names, versions, and rules written out.

Publishing stack

TechFuel HQ is a static site built with Hugo extended (v0.145.0) and deployed to GitHub Pages from the main branch via GitHub Actions.

  • Hosting: GitHub Pages
  • Build: Hugo extended (v0.145.0), --gc --minify on every deploy
  • Source control: GitHub. Changes land on main — some through a pull request, most pushed directly — and every push runs an automated ship gate (build, link check, and SEO//disclosure checks) that has to pass before the site deploys
  • CDN / DNS: Cloudflare in front of GitHub Pages (migrated 2026-06-20)
  • Analytics: Google Analytics 4 (GA4)
  • Search: Google Search Console for indexing state
  • Domain: techfuelhq.com, registered to the site author

Layouts and styles are written from scratch. The site uses its own theme.

How hardware figures are sourced

From 2024 through early 2026 I tested hardware on a bench in St. Louis County, Missouri, using a P3 P4400 Kill A Watt for at-the-wall power, iperf3 for network throughput, fio for storage IOPS, and PresentMon for GPU frame-time capture. GPUs benchmarked on that bench — and used as the first-party baselines in the RTX 5080 dataset — included the RTX 4080, RTX 4080 Super, and an RTX 5080 Founders Edition. That homelab gear was largely sold or retired in early 2026; the ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC remains on the current bench.

Most hardware figures on the site come from named publications and primary documentation. “First-party” means I ran it. It stands as published, whether or not a raw file is on the site. The current published record includes the ROG Astral RTX 5080 dataset, RTX 5080 LLM power-efficiency capture, Ollama–LM Studio comparison, and Home Assistant voice benchmark. The last two publish August 25–26 captures, and the Home Assistant artifact includes its versioned command corpus and raw responses.

External figures are sourced from publications and primary documentation, including:

The editorial policy calls for each figure to name its source and for vendor specifications to be distinguished from independent measurements.

Editorial standards

Every article on this site has to clear all of these before it ships:

  1. Disclose paid editorial material where readers encounter it. A relevant sponsored article or paid mention must identify the sponsor clearly. A recommendation is made on the merits of the product.
  2. Methodology and sources. Benchmark-based articles should name the test setup, source publications and primary documentation that support their figures.
  3. Separate source checks from page updates. An explicit source-check date is labeled “Last verified” or “Sources checked.” Otherwise, date labels identify a page update or its publication. Individual source and price records can carry their own dates.
  4. Cited benchmarks or no benchmarks. Vendor spec-sheet numbers are labeled separately from independent third-party measurements. Made-up benchmarks are worse than no benchmarks; any figure that cannot be attributed to a named source is removed rather than estimated.
  5. No paid rankings or recommendations. A sponsor cannot buy a comparison winner, a recommendation, or a followed link. Editorial control stays with the site.
  6. Cite primary sources inline. Vendor docs, official changelogs, and reputable trade press get linked. Reddit and forum threads get linked when they are the primary signal but get labeled as community-reported, not as vendor-confirmed.
  7. No fabricated first-party claims. A first-person result (“I measured…”, “on my own bench…”) is something I actually ran, and it stands without a saved file. A figure I did not measure is sourced to a named third party. References to gear owned in 2024–2025 are in the past tense.

Where the policy pages live

This page records the toolchain and history. The following pages own the standing policies; summaries here should follow them:

  • Source standards — what counts as a citable source and when forum posts qualify: methodology.
  • Money - which links earn a commission and how retailer evidence is disclosed: the disclosure page, summarized in methodology. A dated retailer citation may be affiliate-tagged; that supports listing facts, with its financial connection disclosed. Sponsored articles and paid mentions follow the separate disclosure rules.
  • Dates - publication, material revision, and source checks: methodology. A page update does not establish a new price capture or a check of every source.
  • Corrections — how errors get fixed and logged: methodology.

Contact

Spot something wrong, want to challenge a recommendation, or have a question about how a specific article was produced? Email contact@techfuelhq.com.

Last updated: 2026-10-20.