About This Site
This is a blog site I created as (what hopefully will become) a hobby.
Story time
I started with a search for already existing blog servers that I could run on my old laptop,
but I couldn't find a one that was a fit for me.
There were a lot of TS & node based ones, which I don't know, nor intend to learn,
and a few go based ones, which I do know.
From those, I filtered out ones that implemeted http on their own (quite alot of them).
Because I don't want to create and host a DB/NAS or save the posts only on the server,
I chose the one that seemed to work with git this one.
After hours of trying to set it up, figuring out that the git itself is hosted on the web server,
I decided to give up and create my own...
The Infrastructure
I decided to host all the blog posts on github to allow for deployment anywere wothout the need to think were was the last place I put them at. And I chose go as the language because I like it, and can also use github for a simple install with go get or go install (althogh I clone and then build it).
Cloudflare was an easy choice, because I already bought the domain from them, and the cloudflared tunnel is very convenient for many reasons.
|---------------------| |--------------|
| old laptop | | The Internet |
| | | (and you) |
| |---------------| | |------||------|
| | docker:8080 | | ||
| |------||-------| | ||
| || | ||
| || | |------||------|
| |------||-------| | | cloudflare |
| | cloudflared <==========| magic cdn |
| | tunnel | | |--------------|
| |---------------| |
| |
|---------------------|
- a very old laptop runing:
- OpenSuse Leap 15
- docker
- Alpine
- web server
- cloudflared
The code for the server is hosted here
The posts are hosted here
Image of the physical computer for funsies:
using AI
As I am not a frontend developer at all, and have no idea how to make more than the basic html, I tried to find an easy way to make the basic html and css templates.
At the start I tried to find an open source template I can use, but none of them was to my liking. They either have been to corporate in style, or required some fronted framework.
So I decided to give chatGPT a try1.
Overall, it was a time saver.
I didn't need any fancy CSS or a very complex set of pages, and I didn't care to get an average quility UI generation.
And besides a simple issue with making images to fit within the container, everything went smoothly.