I started this website as a way to teach myself HTML and some more complex networking. It’s honestly taught me a lot and I encourage whoever is reading this to go onto github pages and make a simple Jekyll site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I started out by trying to use Neocities because it was a free hosting service, but quickly realized that the workflow of adding content to that site by writing html line by line just wasen’t going to work for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I then learned about github pages<\/a>, and built myself a website using Strapi<\/a> as my CMS<\/a> (with CKEDITOR<\/a> as my WYSIWYG<\/a> editor, and a plugin to make it work with Jekyll<\/a>), Jekyll as my SSG<\/a>, and Jenkins<\/a> as my CI\/CD<\/a>. All of this is running in docker<\/a> containers on my home server. It took some time to get everything intergrated, but works fairly well. I like the fact that this method seperates my home network from all the actual hosting with an airgap, while still allowing me to easily add new content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I chose to make my own website sort of from scratch because I wanted the control to choose how each page looked. Building it from scratch also gave me an opportunity to add some fun back to website design with Javasript snippets like Steve the cat on the homepage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I feel like modern web design standards expects everything to look clean and steril, and in doing so, the web has become too boring. Its a shame to me that html lost marquee and blink, because they were fun. They were tools for people to make a fun little website for themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When designing this website I took a lot of inspiration from archived Geocities pages and gifcities<\/em><\/a> from the internet archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10\/17\/25<\/p>\n\n\n\n As my abilities for networking and computer wizardry have grown, I too had outgrown my old website. I have since drastically changed how this website works. I have moved it to an lxc container running under proxmox running wordpress. I hate to be a conformist but wordpress is just significantly easier to use than the weird jekyll strapi thing I had going before. WordPress definitely has its own quirks, but it’s more of a “just works” experience. I have also bought a proper domain name etc. Currently I have an lxc container running under proxmox (specifically: https:\/\/www.turnkeylinux.org\/wordpress<\/a>), with cloudflare tunnel connecting it to the internet. So far its worked quite well, my only annoyance being spending an hour trying to debug, only to realize I had to disable the apache mod evasive to allow access to the admin panel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I started this website as a way to teach myself HTML and some more complex networking. It’s honestly taught me a lot and I encourage whoever is reading this to go onto github pages and make a simple Jekyll site. I started out by trying to use Neocities because it was a free hosting service, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-selfhosted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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