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Roland Szabo

Sep 5, 2024 — 1 min read

Every couple of years, I get bored of my existing blogging setup and make some changes to it. Now, I lasted 4 years on my previous server, but I got annoyed with my static site setup.

I've been thinking about this change for a long time. In the end, I didn't make that many changes:

I'm still using Ghost to write posts, but I upgraded to a bigger server, which is actually cheaper, but from Hetzner instead of DigitalOcean.
I'm using Ansible to automate the deployment (yeah, we'll see how that goes in 1 year).
And instead of using a home baked Rust program to create a static copy, full of bugs, I'm using the Nginx proxy caching module to improve performance (we'll see what bugs this one has, because I fought it for a week to get it mostly right).
I'll be sending the emails using the Ghost newsletter through Mailgun (I questioned many of my life choices while getting this working).
I changed the theme I'm using, because I had customized too much the previous one and it got way behind upstream.

Probably the post segmentation into tech and personal posts will have some issues in the beginning. Please bear with me. But I don't write that many posts, so it won't be spammy anyway :)))

TIL: Caddy

I used to use Nginx to proxy requests and set up SSL. It's not super hard, but the config is a screenfull. Enter Caddy. Install it. Put the following in /etc/caddy/Caddyfile: DOMAIN.NAME { reverse_proxy localhost:8000 } Restart the systemd service. And voila, you have an

TIL: Git push to deploy

Half a year ago, I wrote about how to push Git repos between random repos. But at the time, I did it like a farmer, having to change the branch on the remote machine before pushing. Today, after fighting with piku, which is really nice, except it doesn't

Wait times at the ER

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Growing roots

Last week I was on vacation in Spain. I was there for only a week, but that was enough for the barista at the closest coffee shop to remember how I like my coffee: "Oat milk, right? And sorry, we don't have sugar"[1]. I had

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TIL: Caddy

TIL: Git push to deploy

Wait times at the ER

Growing roots