I wish you a Merry Christmas and / or happy holidays! 🎅

After reading books about Docker and Kubernetes for most of the day today, I wanted to do a bit of programming after all: My blog now has shortened URLs for posts. https://jlelse.blog/s/1 for example redirects to my last post about my current writing workflow.

Walking through the dark park is scary but fascinating at the same time. This is a night shot I tried capturing with my phone. In reality I can see even less.

Although Micropublish is an awesome Micropub editor, I just integrated a custom really basic editor into GoBlog to create, update and delete posts. I will also add image upload soon and then I don’t depend on any external software (except a web browser) for my blogging workflow any more.

GitHub finally has a dark mode. You can enable it in the settings. There are three options: system (automatic light or dark based on the system preferences), light and dark. Now I can better scroll through code at night or early in the morning. ☺️ Gitea (my preferred code hosting system) has a dark-mode too, but it’s more like a grey-green mode.

I just spent a few hours trying to setup Tor for this blog. You can now access this website using a hidden service at http://dvvbogg3cytomyhjf6jfzuaj4vuhjfvttn3wqdy25hpzgykstk5hjnqd.onion/. I don’t want to guarantee that I won’t shut down Tor support again, but it was interesting to set everything up and I learned a lot.

Once I am sure that everything works, I should write a more detailed article about it…

Jan Boddez:

Look, I love (personal) blogs, but I couldn’t care less about your “strategy for making money writing on the Internet.” But, I’ve already said that.

Is a blog really that personal when it’s purpose is just to make money? 🤔 I would call that a business blog. Probably a personal business blog.

Yes, Tomáš! I was thinking about exactly that. Just a simple SVG favicon with an Unicode emoji, maybe this one: “👨‍💻”.

I just disabled BunnyCDN for my blog. I have made a huge effort to implement efficient in-memory caching in GoBlog, including support for strong ETags that stay the same across software restarts (because they are just SHA-256 hashes of the content). I will still use BunnyCDN for the media hosted on my blog though. A CDN is probably overkill for a low-traffic fast-software-with-caching blog on a fast virtual private server with fast network. GoBlog is not WordPress. 😁

It seems like I don’t get Webmentions from micro.blog anymore. 🤔 I missed a couple of replies. Is it because I changed the Webmention endpoint URL when re-launching my blog?