Locked out! I managed to lock myself out of my EC2 instance when I was managing my keys. So in order to update my blog, I had to deploy it to a new EC2 instance. I decided to take the opportunity to improve the way I’m deploying new versions of my site. Note: This will be a technical post. If you’re following along with my adventure in Albania, you can skip this one. ...
So I wanted an app server. How hard could it be right? Well, not really that hard at all. I was tired of having a static site served by apache. I want to do some cool stuff with the google APIs, like maybe a form submit where the results end up in a google doc for me. To do that I need more than hugo’s static site generation. But I didn’t want to get rid of hugo because I like a lot of it’s features, so I added nodejs on top of it as the application server. ...
I decided to use Amazon EC2 to host the blog, because they give you 1 year free on a micro instance. Plus I’ve always wanted to learn how to host something on Amazon’s cloud. I’ll get a linux instance and put an Apache HTTP server on it. Should be easy enough to do. Here’s my EC2 management console after signing up for an Amazon account and creating a linux micro instance:  ...
Well, here it is. I’ve been wanting to create a blog for a while. I don’t know what it will look like in the future, or how often I’ll update it, but as I sit here writing it it’s kind of cathartic. It would be good to get some thoughts out there, and if anybody reads it that’s a bonus. I want to talk about anything and everything on this blog. I’ll delve into my work, hopefully some of these pages will be useful when another developer types some obscure error code into google. I’ll discuss my faith, hopefully that could spark some interesting discussion. I’ll discuss the important stuff that happens in my life, hopefully someone might find it interesting. ...