Long time no see! small update today, Im trying to figure out my site again and make it look nice! Im on my first draft of these leaves and the colors, it feels too green imo. I need a way to break up the green. I really like the idea of a tiling pixel art background though, small and efficent images keep loading times low. something unfortunately lost nowadays with all the slop and bloat people include in their sites and programs XD.
Took me just over a month to change anything! Just a couple small changes this time. I'm trying to find a better background, looking at other peoples sites for inspiration; from what I've seen, something dark, frosted? stormy? pixel-ey with the greenish cyan I've built around seems to be the move. Honestly though, im not all that sure about these colors. I want them to work!!! But the greenish cyan seems a bit hard to work with.
I've also finally got around to removing the file extentions from URL's, so now instead of ../homelab.html, its just ../homelab!! This should make sharing this website considerably easier :3
P.S. I've gone and organized the dates from prior posts into h2 blocks, as well as cleaned everything up on my end to make it a lot more organized!
Been quite a bit since the last post! I haven't had a whole lot of time to work on the site, life and such. However I'm finally here with some much needed improvements!
Firstly, You'll likely have noticed a nice green backdrop to all the text, as well as everything being centered with 12% margins on each side of the screen. I've improved the sites code with margins, divs, and css magic to make the site scale automagically! (just ignore the contact page, the nav bar is kinda cursed if your not on a wide desktop screen! working on it as we speak.)
I also have a favicon now! Its the silly little guy and on firefox browsers it's animated!
behind the scenes, The nav bar and the header now load in from a single nav.html/head.html file! making it easier and less error prone to edit the nav bar for the whole site. Theres no way you wouldve notice though, because it uses a technology called Server Side Includes, where NGINX automatically inserts the file where the proper tag is placed. Really awesome technology from the 90's!
Up next: More details for a less bland more personal site! And getting rid of the .html in the URL.
P.S. The mastodon link is outdated, I dont use mastodon anymore (FireFish FTW)! But you can still reach me on the fediverse at @linus@fv.sitwell.dev
This site has been down for quite a while hasn't it? Honestly glad to have it back up. In the meantime, I've started up a mastodon instance. Add me at @linus@mastodon.sitwell.dev! Putting That goober behind a reverse proxy was kinda tricky, had to do some tomfoolery with certs and "tricking" certbot into working by first forwarding port 80 on my router (having to shut down other proccesses to do so as well!), and then self signing a cert so mastodon wouldnt mald. Finally by some sort of cosmic luck that worked out, and I was able to get a cert signed, which allowed mastodon to co-operate with HAproxy. If this sounds disjointed and chaotic thats because I was fighting this while hella sleepy and exhausted. On another note, Im kinda liking the blog format of these posts, however having to manually edit the file to write them up is kinda lame. Im probably gonna look into some sort of way to implement a blog. While the site was down I checked out wordpress, however it felt to bloated for what I really wanted to do (and the themes all sucked LMAO). So keep an eye out for that in the future! (Also idk why CSS wont apply to this block of text and honestly im too tired rn to figure it out, so have fun with the new colors! XD)
Ive figured out an issue that was making nealy impossible to port forward, turns out my isp just HATES port forwarding and makes it so finicky
now all I gotta do is figure out SRV records (as well as making a separate steam account for the tf2 server) and then everything should be good to go!
Im most likely going to use this space to ramble on about IT and the niche detals ive found interesting about IT, if thats your thing feel free to stick around! Currently my homelab consists of two servers (One of which being the raspberry pi your talking to right now!) and a netgate sg-3100. The bigger beefer server I have is one I custom built from off the shelf computer parts, and is used to host my Game Servers Everything from building it, setting stuff up, nearning a TON about networking and culminating in getting this site up; Has been an awesome journey I've learned so much from.
I hope to be able to update this place with more cool things soon!