I don’t do much on the apps/websites side of things. I’m a platform and systems developer by experience/preference.
That said, I’ve long maintained a blog. I prefer to build my own tools. I wrote a highly opinionated static site generator in Go over the course of the few evenings during March.
I used to use Ghost to host the blog on DigitalOcean but got tired of chasing NPM updates. I got a small VPS instead, installed OpenBSD, and now the site runs off relayd+httpd. relayd handles setting caching headers. httpd handles serving of HTML.
It’s working really nicely. If I didn’t use IBM Plex Sans as a font, my site would easily join the lists like 10kb club. I do set the caching header for it though.
Other than that, I’ve got a couple of side projects I’ve been noodling on. Back end will probably be Go. Front end app will likely be PHP/Laravel. PHP 7+ has been really nice to work with and it runs well on OpenBSD. If it ever got popular enough, shifting to elastic deployments with Docker/LXC/Podman would be straightforward.
That said, I’ve long maintained a blog. I prefer to build my own tools. I wrote a highly opinionated static site generator in Go over the course of the few evenings during March.
I used to use Ghost to host the blog on DigitalOcean but got tired of chasing NPM updates. I got a small VPS instead, installed OpenBSD, and now the site runs off relayd+httpd. relayd handles setting caching headers. httpd handles serving of HTML.
It’s working really nicely. If I didn’t use IBM Plex Sans as a font, my site would easily join the lists like 10kb club. I do set the caching header for it though.
Other than that, I’ve got a couple of side projects I’ve been noodling on. Back end will probably be Go. Front end app will likely be PHP/Laravel. PHP 7+ has been really nice to work with and it runs well on OpenBSD. If it ever got popular enough, shifting to elastic deployments with Docker/LXC/Podman would be straightforward.