Personal Projects

For the longest time, I managed this website by creating the content locally with Hugo, and manually copying the site files to the server I run Mail-in-a-Box on. Mail-in-a-box is one of the first projects I've ever done as a means of learning how mail servers work and setting up email for a domain that I had purchased. Since it has the capability to host basic sites, it originally served a static 'About Me' page, until I decided to write some blog posts. Eventually, I wanted to learn a little about using git. This made me rethink my site hosting, and I started pushing my site to a private git repo. I would then do a git pull from the mail server and used a little script that would move things into the right places for me with the correct permission/ownership structure. This worked like a charm for my basic purposes and served me well for a long time.

It has been quite some time since I've added a new post to my blog. Not that I have any expecatations that I have a group of followers just salivating at the thought of another post.

Introducing someone to web servers, Linux, and hosting a website can be difficult if they aren’t naturally inclined to learn about this sort of thing. Let’s face it, tech can absolutely be boring to someone. “Someone”, in this case, refers to my 9 year old daughter.