Hello World

Recently, I started a project using DigitalOcean and discovered the App Platform’s static site feature. I think I had heard about it before I discovered it in their documentation but it’s exactly what I needed – GitHub pages (for my traffic needs which fit into the free tier) with any public Git provider. I can deploy a static site automatically with a simple platform-agnostic CI/CD step (one curl command that runs on push).

DigitalOcean’s Terraform support is robust and I’ve got a bit of fragile configuration (DNS records for email, namely) that I’d like to be less scared of touching. I was a self-taught Ansible user about 6 years ago and for my minimal needs (well within Hashicorp’s free tier limits) this really does feel a bit like free magic.

As for the actual blog it’s a much smaller template that makes JavaScript optional. I really don’t need more than that and am already feeling a little lighter knowing I can just write Markdown and publish HTML without npm.

Can’t wait to tell y’all about what I’m building next!