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diff --git a/content/posts/deploying-the-garden.md b/content/posts/deploying-the-garden.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ef3821d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/deploying-the-garden.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +title: Deploying the garden +date: 2024-03-26 +extra: + kind: note +--- + +Every respectable tech blog must contain two posts: + +- ”This site now has RSS” +- ”This is how this site is deployed” + +Other content is optional. + +## Writing on the go + +Content updates go like this: + +1. I write Markdown in a special directory in my Obsidian Vault +2. The change is synced to my Digital Ocean server via Obsidian Sync (I run an Obsidian process on my server) +3. A file system monitor script picks it up and runs a build script +4. Built HTML files are served with Nginx + +This process gives me full control over the content wherever I have access to Obsidian. Making writing as easy as possible is the principle behind this design. + +[This is considered a good idea in the frog community.](https://www.todepond.com/wikiblogarden/art/never-stop-writing/on-your-phone) + +Making changes to the build process itself, or the HTML template, requires a computer, however. + +## Parentheses + +Most of the heavy lifting is done by `pandoc`. The glue parts use an obscure and ancient language with many curved sigils. Give it a try. + + + +## Hosting + +My small Digital Ocean server also moonlights as a container image registry. I build the scripts into an OCI image, push it on the server and run it with `docker-compose`. Don’t over-engineer when you want things _done_. |