Running on Static
Well, somewhat recently I wrote about how this site was running on a raspberry pi, but since then a good bit has happened.
I actually moved across the country during this pandemic, I started a new job, more life, and somewhere along the way I decided to move this site from being hosted on a raspberry pi, to now being hosted via GitHub Pages. I digress, during the move I had moved this site to being hosted on Google Cloud, but that time has now passed.
A lot of the principles or ideas incorporated in the hosting and deployment of the site now, come from the Jamstack principles, or at least are inspired by it some haha.
Main idea now being that instead of always re-rendering the static content on each request or even using a cache to hold "hot" static content, just pre-build the HTML views for this content to be served to the client.
It's nothing incredibly complex, it honestly just makes a lot of sense, and I feel silly for doing it any other way before now haha.
This site is essentially static now, almost CDN like, there are of course a few scripts/web components incorporated on the page, but they are not absolutely essential. Feel free to view the site without Javascript.
As part of this migration, I had also made the repository for this site public, so you can now take a look at the code for this site on GitHub.
Ohhh I guess timestamps are also a new addition added to this site. You'll notice that some of the content is bunched to the same day and I likely didn't write all of it in one day, maybe some, but likely not, I honestly forget.
Main reason that is the case is that I re-created some of the files before, which adjusted that creation time (womp womp). But from now on they should be more accurate, and with that I will try to hold myself more accountable in producing or at least writing more.
Prepare to be bugged more world! Haha.