https://jmoyers.org - personal website!

Goals

• Minimal administrative headache
• Write in a text editor on my local machine
• Programmatic backup and restore
• Ability to live edit css and any template
• Store some very basic meta data, like date, title, tags
• Some very basic date-based pagination
• Easy access to post processing tools for scss, minification etc
• Permalinks
• Containerized
• Process monitoring and logging through single node docker swarm
• One click deploy and service update

Using

• Docker for containerization
• nginx for tls termination, gzip compression
• Terraform for infrastructure deployment (Digital Ocean here)
• Ansible for provisioning - setting up docker swarm, minimal packages
• Hugo for static site generation
• vim, tmux, wsl for dev and writing environment
• Markdown with Front Matter for blog posts
• HTML/scss with BEM stylings, no external dependencies