Something I wanted to try out since I set up the blog as hugo static site was the automatic testing and deployment straight from the git to our webserver. As we are not using any of the common hosts for static sites, because why would we when we have a server at our disposal, it was a interesting to find a solution without using third-party services.
Our current setup is a VPS running a nginx and a docker environment for everything we don’t quite trust and or want to run on bare metal. Two of those docker containers are Gogs and Drone CI, which work miraculously well together.
And once again a new blog software. Well not as much blog software as just a static site generator. I went with hugo as it seemed to be of reasonable complexity and allowed me to port over the blog theme in a minimal amount of time. Whole blog and the content are now maintained in the old microblog git.
All old links should still work as before. e.g. /entry/1/ or /page/2/. In addition code blocks now support syntax highlighting for all of pygments supported languages, which are quite numerous. Including most programming and config file syntaxes. Which is quite important for a coding and administration oriented blog.
//go example
import "fmt"
func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello World")
}server {
listen [::]:80 ipv6only=off;
server_name server.name.nic;
location / {
add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=15768000;
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
}The old famfam icon set was replaced by a web font with just a minimal set of glyphs we actually need, thanks to fontello. The Icons come from Font Awesome and Entypo I’ll do an inlined version of the SVG font version later to remove absolutely all binary traffic from the blog.