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A Blog Stack No One Should Build pt. 3 of ?

Recap In the last article, we left off with our DNS records setup in Digital Ocean and Name Cheap was configured to point to those zones. The manual portion of that setup is pretty easy to deal with and is quite well documented on the DO side of things. In Name Cheap’s UI it looks something like this. Next it’s time to spin up a Kubernetes cluster and actually put attach something to…

A Blog Stack No One Should Build pt. 2 of ?

Recap In the last article, we went through a subset of the technologies involved in this project: Let’s Encrypt Terraform Kubernetes Digital Ocean Github We also setup some very basic Terraform files to get connected to Digital Oceans API. If it wasn’t fully clear from that last post, this is not meant to be a tutorial on how to build out an extremely over/under engineered blog running…

A Blog Stack No One Should Build pt. 1 of ?

The Idea A few weeks back, I took a look at my personal hosting account and came to a realization. While I have the skills I’d need to maintain a server and the Wordpress instance that I had running on it, I really didn’t want to that fight with keeping everything upgraded. My main web head was still running Ubuntu 14.04 and I really wasn’t in the mood to go through all the…

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There’s always another one isn’t there? Another bug, another feature, always something over the horizon that needs to be fixed or built. The moment there isn’t your project is effectively dead. That’s just the way it works. That’s where the idea for this site came from. Well, the name of it anyway. We’ll just have to see where that takes it. One warning, most of…