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diff --git a/content/post/dusting-off-the-blog.md b/content/post/dusting-off-the-blog.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..311775a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/dusting-off-the-blog.md @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +--- +title: "Dusting off the blog" +date: 2024-05-04 +--- +# Dusting off the blog +_Rasmus Dahlberg, 2024-05-04._ + +The other week I talked to my friend MC about maybe starting to blog again. I +know, "starting to blog again" is a bit of a stretch for someone that didn't +post a lot to begin with. Nevertheless, today I woke up and wanted to see if I +can get this thing going again. I think it requires lowering the bar for what +needs to go into a blog post. Somewhere deep inside of me, I still hear the +echo of my old advisor saying "a good thesis is a done thesis". The same is +probably true for blog posts, and partly why I'm inspired by MC who somehow +[finds the time to write][] consistently about anything and everything. I will +try to follow suit; not overthinking and just write about _what I want to_. Who +knows, every now and then I might just post a picture and the recipe of +something really yummy? I used to like doing that on Instagram, but I no longer +use any social media. + +[finds the time to write]: https://hack.org/mc/blog/ + +Anyway, dusting of the blog started with me migrating my [Hugo][] project (the +website's source) from a private GitHub repository to my self-hosted +[gitolite][] server at `git.rgdd.se`. In the future, you should be able to +clone it like this: + + $ git clone https://git.rgdd.se/www + $ git clone https://git.rgdd.se/www-theme + +[Hugo]: https://gohugo.io/ +[gitolite]: https://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html + +For now it only works with SSH authentication. I can configure your public key +if you'd like, in which case something like this should work to get the site's +source: + + $ git clone git@git.rgdd.se:www.git + $ git clone git@git.rgdd.se:www-theme.git + +What's quite high up on my TODO list is to configure a web frontend using +[cgit][]. All my public git repositories would then be shown with a user +interface similar to the [Linux kernel][], [Wireguard][], and the many other +projects that all of us like. + +Other than having full control of my git repositories at `git.rgdd.se` (which is +really great as I use git for my password manager [pass][] and various notes), I +plan to mirror repositories that I contribute to on other platforms. This will +make it easier to get an overview of the things I'm hacking on, how nice right? + +[pass]: https://www.passwordstore.org/ + +Back to me dusting of the blog. What I realized is that I didn't have a clean +separation between my Hugo project and the (somewhat forked) theme I was using. +So, I spent a few hours cleaning this up in two separate repositories now: + + - `www`: where my website's landing page and blog content is. + - `www-theme`: a fork of [hugo-researcher][] that basically removes unwanted + CDN trackers, updates fonts and colors, and re-styles the landing page + avatar. + +I find it fascinating how a site's appearance can change by fonts and colors +alone. It's quite different from the [hugo-researcher screenshot][], isn't it? + +[hugo-researcher]: https://github.com/ojroques/hugo-researcher +[hugo-researcher screenshot]: https://github.com/ojroques/hugo-researcher?tab=readme-ov-file#screenshot + +If you ever get curious about which font a site is using, I can recommend the +[Fontanello add-on][] by Fred Bergman and Lars Wästfelt. Lars developed +[Sigsum's brand assets][]. Since then I've paid a little bit more attention to +fonts and colors. + +[Fontanello add-on]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fontanello/ +[Sigsum's brand assets]: https://git.glasklar.is/sigsum/project/documentation/-/tree/main/assets + +That's about it for this time. It was fun cleaning up my site as `www` and +`www-theme`. And to _actually dust off the blog_ afterwards, thus breaking the +silence. Hopefully it doesn't take me another year or two before I write here +again. + +[cgit]: https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/ +[Linux kernel]: https://git.kernel.org/ +[WireGuard]: https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-monolithic-historical/ |