So, I’ve been very busy last few days, because my files and configs and everything was all over the place… So here’s my journey:

Baby steps: Obsidian!

for anyone as messy as I am, Obsidian is a must have app. It took me way too long to realize it’s absolutely perfect. Just markdown, folders, and decent UI, simple enough to just work. There is a ton of resources and plugins readily available, allowing you to just tweak your way and be done with it. Yes, I’ve been tweaking my arch install endlessly too.

Blogging with jekyll

It was not without a fight. I have never done much with ruby, and there were some issues with versions, imports, and ACL config when running in docker, but eventually I found a way.

The first thing I did was to do my CV in jekyll to try it out. I made a Makefile to make my life a bit easier which looked something like this:

JEKYLL_VERSION=3.8
PORT=4000
build:
	docker run --rm  -p${PORT}:4000  --volume="${PWD}:/srv/jekyll"   -it jekyll/jekyll:${JEKYLL_VERSION}   jekyll build
serve:
	docker run --rm  -p${PORT}:4000  --volume="${PWD}:/srv/jekyll"   -it jekyll/jekyll:${JEKYLL_VERSION}   jekyll serve
shell:
	docker run --rm  -p{PORT}:4000  --volume="jekyll-cv:/srv/jekyll" --volume="${PWD}:/srv/old"   -it jekyll/jekyll:${JEKYLL_VERSION}  sh

nothing fancy, but it made my life a bit easier.

The CV itself is rather easy and it’s just one-file-contains-all kinda philosophy, which now in retrospect feels a bit against the whole idea of using jekyll, but well, live and learn. The idea of using one file with everything slammed together comes from my past implementation of first VanillaJS/HTML implementation which was nothing more than a fun way to pass the time in a boring job back then.

So eventually i got that working in docker, running on my laptop, since my current situation is inadvertly serverless-y, and then I saw everyone was hosting jekyll on github pages, which - again - in retrospect is obvious solution. So after a bit of tinkering and tweaking with cloudflare I somehow managed to deploy the jekyll blog which you are reading to my domain directly from my github. I didn’t look too much into it, I am always suspicious and I prefer to always self-host, but non-crucial data like my rambling on this blog and CV? If you find a way to exploit that, kudos my friend.

So to sum it up, the solution was obvious and I am stupid. Hopefully this will help someone in the future.

Farewell, V