Netlify

I’ve just taken the sage advice of Some Person On Twitter, in reaction to all the furor surrounding the (largely correct) assertions in Moxie Marlinspike’s latest blog post about Web3 shenanigans.

That advice? Nobody wants to run their own servers.

I, of course, was at that very moment scribbling in my notebook about how I was going to run my own servers. I had already sketched out how I was going to use GitHub actions to build and push custom Caddy containers, containing my Hugo-created static site to my microk8s-running GCP server…

I mean. I still might screw with something like that – and in fact I have! Almost. I had done a PoC of creating my Hugo site and using GitHub Actions to push it to a demo GCP server. Which was pretty cool and fun.

However.

This shit is so easy it’s hilarious. When I went through the three-item configuration in Netlify’s quickstart, I fully expected it to not work at all.

I think I may have actually said “Oh, fuck.” out loud when this page came up.

Ain’t the internet grand?

—Greg