shit.cx

The shit.cx Infra

2020-10-30T02:46

Today I've stood up a Gemini server for the first time. I've really enjoyed the process. So far it has been easy and super fast.

Agate was the first server I tried. It gave me no reason to look at alternatives so I haven't. I'm very happy with it. It's distributed as a Rust binary which is small enough to commit directly into the repo. This has made deployments very easy.

I threw together a template that is used by a Make target to generate new pages.

${DOCUMENT_DIRECTORY}:
        mkdir -p $@

${DOCUMENT_LOCATION}: template/article.gmi.template | ${DOCUMENT_DIRECTORY}
        @envsubst < $< > $@

A script creates index.gmi which links out to the articles.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
content_dir=$1
cd ${content_dir}

files() {
  find . -iname \*.gmi -not -iname index.gmi
}

file_heading() {
  grep -m1 "^##\ " $1 | sed -E 's/^##\ +//'
}

file_created() {
  str=$(awk '/^created_at:/ { print $2 }' $1)
  date --date="${str}" +%s
}

for f in $(files); do
  epoch=$(file_created $f)
  date=$(date --date=@${epoch} +%Y/%m/%d)
  heading=$(file_heading $f)

  echo "${epoch} => $f [${date}] ${heading}"

  unset date
  unset epoch
  unset heading
done | sort -n -r | awk '{ gsub(/^[0-9]*\ /,"", $0); print $0 }'

I then spun up a Linode and deployed it.

deploy:
        ssh shit.cx "bash -c 'cd /usr/local/src/shit.cx && git pull && systemctl restart agate.service'"

I then setup DNS and a health check with Route 53.

So within a few hours, I've built and deployed a blogging tool. This has been fun and so easy. It's refreshing that so much complexity is omitted.

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