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<p>So the date on this post may be wrong by the time you're reading it,
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mostly because I'm not sure when I'm gonna be done setting up the
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server, but I hope it's today. However, you probably will have noticed
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(if you visit my website somewhat regularly) that a lot has changed.
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It's the migration I was talking about a few posts ago.</p>
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<p>To start, let me explain the change in framework: something I've been
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thinking about lately is the vulnerability of my blog posts, which
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before were stored in a database file on my VPS. If for any reason I
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were to lose that data, I'd lose all the blog posts. I was also
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frustrated with the complicated way of posting new articles that I had
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setup: I'd write the post in an HTML file on my computer, and then I'd
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login to my hand-made dashboard on my website, to post it there with all
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the relevant fields. It seemed like a lot of double work that could be
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easily simplified.</p>
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<p>Luckily for me, due to recent developments with my VPS host, I'm
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moving services, and I figured I'd take advantage of this to start
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fresh. So I decided I'd port my website to a static site generator.
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Originally I was going to use one I had recently created, called
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<a href="https://gitlab.com/naortega/sssg" target="_blank">sssg</a>, but
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as I was developing some of the more complex features for it, I
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discovered that a simple SSG already existed with enough features to
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give me what I needed:
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<a href="https://git.codemadness.org/saait/file/README.html" >saait</a>.
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It's quite minimalist and yet it provides me with the features necessary
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to host all my website's content, such as my blog and news feeds. Now
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it's all statically generated, so all you're pulling is pre-compiled
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HTML, and not generated on the spot by a PHP script as it was
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before.</p>
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<p>So, since I'm excited about all the changes I have to my website, I'm
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going to explain the setup (for the most part).</p>
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<p>First, as I've already explained, my website is generated statically
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with saait on my personal computer. I will likely be creating a git
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repository where I can host the source for you all to see, since that
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will also allow me to easily edit my website code from my other
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computers. Second, I synchronize my website's generated files with the
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server with RSync. As for the HTTP server I'm using, I've chosen to use
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lighttpd for simplicity's sake.</p>
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<p>I also now have two different modes of newsfeed: Atom and RSS. I also
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noticed, as someone who uses newsfeeds for a lot websites, that I enjoy
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those that have the content in the newsfeed itself so I don't have to
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open up the browser, but can read it right inside my newsfeed
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application - which, as I mentioned in a previous article, is newsboat -
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so now for both Atom and RSS feed the entire content of my blog posts is
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in the newsfeed item itself. If this does present a problem later on, I
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can change it to only give the description, which will make the XML
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files lighter to download - currently the Atom feed is 468KB and the RSS
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feed 440KB, so I don't think it's too much to download.</p>
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<p>All in all, I'm quite happy with the way things have turned out, so I
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hope I'll be able to keep this setup for... at least a few more
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years.</p>
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