The Generic Blog

It seemed as if I were discussing about potentially setting up a blog, and after a bit of encouragement and a little bit of research later, here we are! Shoutout to Mark for the kind words of encouragement too! I'm not guaranteeing that this will last or anything, but it's a nice foray into something that I can try. It could end up like my private file server; I didn't quite expect to find myself using it as much as I do now, but it turns out that I rely on that for everyday use. Anyways, we'll see how it goes! :D

A Quick Word of Note

This isn't the first time I've set up a blog. During the pandemic, I set up a Blogger blog to discuss things, although that never materialized. Now, here we are, except I have complete control over my blog now.

Anyways, let's get to how I set this up.

A bit of how this instance is set up

This instance is ran on a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ running whatever the latest stable version of Alpine Linux is. I have set up automatic updates via a cron script, and this happens every Saturday @ midnight pacific time. The update script was originally setup for updating my file server since I know I won't use it around that time. If you are reading the blog, however, then you should be 99% OK (unless you hit that 1% chance).

I like to use Alpine Linux on any personal servers I run because it's super lightweight. It's so lightweight that I've seen it use only ~60 MB of RAM when idle. Right now, it's using ~415 MB since OpenSSH, Syncthing, and WriteFreely are running. I could potentially cram another service in here, but that'd really be pushing in my opinion. Unless it's a really lightweight service of course.

Parting Words (For Now!)

Well, that's all I have for today. Maybe I'll post updates about Tenacity or any other project I work on in general. Maybe I'll post fun bits of information in an attempt to document things I wish I knew sooner. We'll see! For now, thank you for reading, and I hope to see you again soon! :D