Mayonnaise
mayonnaise
That's the first word I posted to this blog to test if it worked. It does.
In the middle of 2022, I had the ambition to create a blog... From scratch. I had drawn out visual diagrams on how everything would work, listed the tools I would need, and the features I'd want. I still probably have this somewhere, just I can't be bothered looking for it.
Today, I was searching through the awesome-selfhosted website for some blogging solutions that I could just host myself, and get into writing straight away rather than building a full-scale solution from the ground up.
I found this one. It's called WriteFreely and I think it's pretty cool.
I was able to deploy this in about 10 minutes to already existing infrastructure. It was really easy to set up. It has a small CLI wizard that takes you through basic configuration, and it allows for reverse proxy-ing straight out of the box. Awesome.
After running Certbot, and adding a DNS record on Cloudflare, it was up. Of course, in my haste, I made a typo in my Nginx configuration file, and spelt the domain as “joeymnanani” instead of “joeymanani”. Luckily, I fixed this after I realised static files weren't loading.
Now, apparently, it supports Markdown, and if you don't know what that is, it allows me to do stuff like this:
📝 Hey, that's a Markdown feature...
It allows me to customize the post however I choose, allowing me to add text formatting, titles, hyperlinks or even images. I'm impressed.
Anyways, that's it from me I think. Stay tuned for more, probably...
Yours truly, Joey Manani