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title: "My Workflow For This Site"
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date: 2022-04-05
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This blog is about a week old now. I'm still figuring out what kind of content
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I'd like to post, or what kind of writing style I have. What I have figured out
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however, is my workflow.
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Thanks to my backend [powered by Axum](/switch-to-axum) I have pretty much full
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creative control over the internal workings of my site. This gave me the
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freedom to implement a system that I think works very well. Let's elaborate a
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bit.
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Both the blog & the documentation part of my website are currently being
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generated using Hugo, a static site generator. The lack of JavaScript makes the
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site very fast, which is always a big plus in my opinion. Thanks to my
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[self-hosted CI](https://woodpecker-ci.org/), I can automatically build &
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deploy the static files every time I update anything. My CI builds the static
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website, compresses it into a tarball, & uploads this to my backend. This
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process takes less than 10 seconds on a warm CI runner & it allows me to very
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quickly update my site, correct errors, or just upload a post like this one!
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My backend supports a simple system of serving multiple sites. In practice this
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means that I can specify which site I'm uploading using a query parameter in
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the POST request. This is how I'm able to serve my documentation on
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[/docs](/docs) while still having my blog available as the "default" site.
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The "source code" for my site(s) is stored in Git repositories using Markdown.
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Considering I use Git on a daily basis, this is perfect for me & I don't see it
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as an "extra step" anymore. For college I use Git as well, so using it in
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personal projects is a no-brainer.
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I have no idea how common this setup is, or if it'll work as well down the
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road, but for now, I find it works perfectly.
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Thanks for reading!
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