Hello World!

In the grandest tradition of programmers everywhere, this post could only have had one title.

So…​

Hello World!

Now, on to the meat…​ Why? Why do this?

I like shouting into the void that is the Internet.

And I have recently had some stuff derailing crazily, so decided to document it.

As an example: I have a homelab. Nothing too crazy. I promise. It has sat largely unused ever since I got the hardware nearly a year go. A few weekends ago I have started to make my own macro/number pad to compliment my keyboard. I’ve got most of the skills, so why not? But, I thought, I’m going to host the project fully in my homelab. This has derailed…​ much.

  • set up a GitLab instance, which led to:

    • moving a domain I’ve had from GoDaddy to my preferred OVH

    • configuring a new e-mail for personal use

    • cancelling my MS365 subscription (wasn’t using it anyway)

    • ordering a web host (since it’s cheaper to get e-mails from OVH that way)

    • setting up a reverse proxy

    • setting up GitLab

    • setting up GitLab runner

    • deciding too much shit is too much, so I’ll write it down

    • making a blog using GitLab Pages (using gitlab.com this time)

    • here we are

Oh, and I also decided to opensource my CI Docker images

So, yeah. It’s been a crazy time, and now you’re reading about it.