Hello World!

Posted on March 1, 2022 with tags: personal web design

In this post:

Recently, I've acquired both the time and the drive to establish a long-term personal project. With the goal of showcasing my engineering, design, and writing skills, building a personal blog is a no brainer. Thus, after a makeover of my personal website this article establishes the start of my foray into blogging.

Changelog

December 2022

• Comments (create/delete)
• Social account signup
• User profiles

November 2022

• due to Heroku free tier end-of-life, refactored to DIY deployment with Docker on Linode
• enabled SSL using Certbot
• added light theme and theme switcher
• built GitHub pipeline for CI/CD

March 2022

• new color scheme, fonts, and dark mode
• added public/private posts and new design for blog post list
• added post tags, search, sort, & filtering to list
• auto-generated post TOCs

Guides/Inspiration

• Setting up Amazon S3 Bucket for serving Django Static and Media files.
  
• How to use SCSS/SASS in your Django project (Python Way)
• Storing Django Static and Media Files on Amazon S3
• Quickstart for django with docker-compose