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title: "My Workflow For This Site"
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
I'd like to post, or what kind of writing style I have. What I have figured out
however, is my workflow.

Thanks to my backend [powered by Axum](/switch-to-axum) I have pretty much full
creative control over the internal workings of my site. This gave me the
freedom to implement a system that I think works very well. Let's elaborate a
bit.

Both the blog & the documentation part of my website are currently being
generated using Hugo, a static site generator. The lack of JavaScript makes the
site very fast, which is always a big plus in my opinion. Thanks to my
[self-hosted CI](https://woodpecker-ci.org/), I can automatically build &
deploy the static files every time I update anything. My CI builds the static
website, compresses it into a tarball, & uploads this to my backend. This
process takes less than 10 seconds on a warm CI runner & it allows me to very
quickly update my site, correct errors, or just upload a post like this one!

My backend supports a simple system of serving multiple sites. In practice this
means that I can specify which site I'm uploading using a query parameter in
the POST request. This is how I'm able to serve my documentation on
[/docs](/docs) while still having my blog available as the "default" site.

The "source code" for my site(s) is stored in Git repositories using Markdown.
Considering I use Git on a daily basis, this is perfect for me & I don't see it
as an "extra step" anymore. For college I use Git as well, so using it in
personal projects is a no-brainer.

I have no idea how common this setup is, or if it'll work as well down the
road, but for now, I find it works perfectly.

Thanks for reading!