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index.norg

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 created: 2026-03-21T11:29:19+00:00
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+updated: 2026-03-23T20:55:01+0100
 draft: false
 layout: home
 version: 1.1.1
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 	If you can read this, server02 hasn't crashed (yet) :)
 
-	test for webhook
+	Email always open: admin@voidarc.co.uk (if my mailserver is up, which is sometimes)

posts/homelab.norg

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+@document.meta
+title: How I fell in with Linux
+description: Haha war of the worlds reference
+authors: [
+  Adumh00man
+]
+categories: [
+	blog
+	voidarc
+  homelab
+  linux
+  webdev
+]
+created: 2026-03-21T19:08:28+00:00
+updated: 2026-03-21T21:20:48+0100
+draft: false
+layout: post
+version: 1.1.1
+@end
+
+* Some Backstory
+	Linux is not hard to learn. Some say it is, but they're wrong. If one can be afraid of a terminal, then I must be the bravest man
+	alive. But, I digress. I began many moons ago, when I was still young, innocent, and didn't know what nix was (what precious days).
+	I began tinkering with some ubuntu virtual machines, but, since I didn't have much of a use for them, I stuck to the desolate landscape
+	of windows, which was still pretty good at the time, to be fair. This was in the dark days before windows 11 struck, and before RAM was
+	£3000. Skip forward, to when I decided that building a PC was a good use of money. I will admit, it was a steal, even for the time. I
+	was doing LTT challenges before they were even popular, managing to build a fully functional machine for the low low price of about £700.
+	In what was to be the first issue I had ever faced, I decided to install windows. Foolish.
+
+	That is not the point of this story, though. Fast forward again, to when I aqquired, through some sheer luck, a relative's old desktop.
+	It was, of course, a piece of shit. 4gb of ram, something something pentium. It was hardly anything to write home about. The only thing
+	it had going was that it had a whole terabyte of storage hidden within, a drive I am still using 4 years on, as of writing this, to store
+	all of my *legally* aqquired media (I'll get to it later). I had the brilliant idea of turning it into a server. Of course, instead of
+	doing anything moderately intelligent, I installed ubuntu on it, and accessed it over rdp for about 6 months. I know, revolutionary.
+	This was the legendary Server01, or, at least, the first iteration.
+
+** The first iteration
+	 As far as I can remember, I never really hosted anything interesting for the first stretch of time. But, after seeing my success in
+	 hosting a whole docker container (thanks networkchuck), the linux addiction began to take hold of me. I scoured facebook marketplace for
+	 anything that could satiate my urge to fuck about with json more efficiently, until I came across a diamond in the rough. For a measly
+	 £20, an old workstation. A HP Optiplex. Server02.
+
+	 8 whole gigs of ram, a (moderately) more powerful processor, and even more storage. It was a dream come true. It was around this time,
+	 too, that I installed either Arch or fedora on my laptop (All I can remember is that it had kde and was a laggy piece of shit), which
+	 let me get used to how linux actually functioned. After another banger video from networkchuck, detailing the installation of a
+	 load balancer, the Kemp Loadmaster (I would come to hate that name), I finally had the inspiration to reinstall everything. The second
+	 iteration had begun.
+
+** The one with Alpine
+	 I couldn't tell you why, but I got it in my head that Alpine was the lightest distro. Knowing that my "servers" (if you could call them
+	 that) were basically E waste, I figured that alpine was the obvious choice, because of how fast it was, or something. It probably
+	 had something to do with all the docker images that were based on it, but now I know that they're only based on alpine for the sake of
+	 it. Alpine is a small distro, sure, but for that storage space, you sacrifice basically everything you need to live. I.e. packages.
+
+	 Even so, I transfered the kemp install over to a usb and began the installation. Both servers kitted out with only the finest alpine
+	 images money could buy. I was quick to install docker and get up basically the only service that I had at the time, plex.
+
+*** Plex
+		Plex is shit. I can see that now. Before I knew it was propriotary nonsense, I thought it was amazing. Fast, efficient, something
+		something. Who am I kidding, I saw it on an LTT video and installed it immediately. I can't remember what I even hosted on there,
+		since it was way before I installed the arr stack or anything like that, but I switched over to my love jellyfin a few months later.
+
+		---
+	 Alpine lasted a good while. I was still on windows at this point, and only really used the servers for silly little services. Before that,
+	 though, I need to explain a key part of the plan
+
+** Humble beginnings
+	 In the same video explaining the load balancer, Chuck showed me how to get a free domain. I needed a name, and voidarc was something I
+	 had recently cooked up for some story or another, so I went with that. As you can see, it stuck. Hence, voidarc.tk was born.
+
+	 Voidarc.tk was to become a core part of my life. Using the newfound power that came with a commercial load balancer, I began adding
+	 services left right and center, services that would follow me, if not uselessly, all the way through until the co.uk days.
+	 Some notable services included: kasm, a remote app gateway, which was fun while it lasted, but alltogether useless; portainer, that I
+	 never once used to start a container; code-server, where I ended up doing most of my development and management, just to name a few.
+	 The domain also allowed me to host public minecraft servers, the domains for which had remained unchanged until a few months ago.
+	 A few attempts at making an ssh server over https were made, but none were sucessful, because I was doing it wrong.
+
+** The linux era
+	 By this time, it was the summer of 2023. My laptop had Arch on it by now, after going through a phase of being a windows machine
+	 because I couldn't figure out intel drivers, and I was on holiday. This was the turning point. This was the holiday that turned me into
+	 a loser. For the first week, nothing interesting happened, the same for the next week. I was using the code server I had set up to
+	 program one thing or another, but the fact I was using linux at all was completely lost on me. It wasn't until that fateful day when
+	 someone I knew on the campsite offered to show me her laptop that it clicked. She brought out a thinkpad, and displayed on the screen
+	 was a linux desktop the likes of which I had never seen before. The linux desktop that would end me.
+
+	 Hyprland
+
+*** The transition to Linux
+		I didn't know at the time what hyprland was, or how it worked, but after seeing such a beautiful system with my own mortal eyes, I knew
+		I wanted in. I researched, coming across sway and some other nonsense I ended up not using. After a trip onto r/unixporn, I realised
+		that almost everyone was using hyprland. So, I did the same. I decided, still on holiday, to reinstall arch with hyprland and configure
+		it, so that when I got back home, I could install it on my main machine.
+
+    Needless to say, it was a success. In the beginning, there was a lot of stealing configs, as is normal, because I had no idea what I
+		was doing. The day came, and I erased windows for the final time. Of course, I used archinstall, but it hardly made a difference.
+		The first day was spent trying to figure out modesetting so that my gpu, a GTX 1070, would work with wayland. I hate kernel options.
+
+		A time came when I decided that there needed to be a change, so I installed a complete solution, called hyprdots. This is when I realised
+		that I hated that idea of bloat. I understood the minimalists! But anyway, this is an article on servers, not other random shit.
+		I digress.
+
+** The penultimate era: the plateu
+	 I realised eventually that Alpine was also shit. So, in a frantic evening of usb installers, I switched server02 over to arch. And so it
+	 remains to this day. I wouldn't be surprised if there were still remnants of zammad lurking in the /etc folder. Zammad was a ticketing
+	 system that was a royal pain in my ass to install, and broke at every possible convenience. Don't even know why I needed it in the first
+	 place, if I'm honest. Server01 remained on alpine, and still does for some reason, but only because I can't be bothered to wait for my
+	 home assistant image to copy over to a usb. Not happening with usb2 speeds. There was a period where I tried to use proxmox on server01,
+	 since I only wanted vms on there, but it was too slow to bother, so I gave in to the alpine gods and removed that kvm entry. This is where
+	 development began to slow to a halt. I had bought a .co.uk domain by now, and the services I used were now set in stone. I wasn't using
+	 jellyfin daily yet, or really anything. The most I used my servers was to watch some manually downloaded show that I could've just found
+	 online. I believe that that was how I first watched JJK.
+
+	 I had a download manager in some docker container that I had to manually add torrents to so that they would download. What trying times.
+	 I definately didn't know what the arr stack was even for back then, but I trudged on. Some other notable services included:
+	 - Portainer (still didn't use it)
+	 - homepage, for a time
+	 - code-server, obviously
+	 - shellinabox, probably the best thing ever made.
+
+	 And that's where it stayed for a while. I made no changes, and no efforts to remove the invasive nonsense from my life.
+	 How sad :(.
+
+** De-corporatifying
+	 There came a time when I got fed up of the overpriced nonsense shit that the companies of the world believe that we should put up with.
+	 I wanted freedom. I wanted a better life. And more importantly, I didn't want a gruvbox themed system anymore. So, everything changed
+	 I reinstalled arch on my main pc. I re-themed everything. But, most importantly, I purged a load of shit that I didn't use anymore.
+	 Of course, this made me install a load of other random shit that I used for all of 10 minutes, but that's the price you pay when you
+	 self-host. I stripped down, finally removed portainer, and focused on making my servers as useful as possible. I even automated replacing
+	 the ip on cloudflare when *fucking vodafone* decided it was funny to change it, and not give an option to have a static ip in the first
+	 place. This system is, of course, still in use to this day, and is using node.js and a cron job instead of anything more logical. What
+	 works, works, but I should probably put it on n8n someday.
+
+	 I started to use Jellyfin more frequently, and get away from shit social media. I uninstalled snapchat, leaving me with only whatsapp and
+	 reddit, which is all the modern man really needs. No more youtube shorts, either. I got into deadmau5, too, but that's unrelated.
+	 It was around this time, too, when I decided hosting a mailserver would be a fun thing to do. It was not, and still barely functions to
+	 this day.
+
+	 Then, the final evolution occured.
+
+** The last straw
+	 I was interested in nix when i first heard of it. Imagine, a whole system, version controlled and reproducible on any machine. I know now
+	 that that was a stupid way to think about it, but it began as it always did, with an install on my laptop. It seemed simple enough,
+	 and I got a hyprland system working fairly quickly. Of course, the evolution of my nix config is a whole other -story- article, so I'll
+	 save it for now. I believe once I installed nix, things began to accelerate. I began to wonder what else could be replaced. Could endless
+	 reddit feeds be replaced by something more interesting? Could manual downloads be automated? Could I be free of the mortal coil that is 
+	 Microslop and Github? I began to experiment, on the old trusty server02.
+
+** Current era: before proxy manager
+	 It all started when I finally realised what the Arr stack actually was. I had it set up within the day, importing all of my shows. More
+	 importantly, I realised that I could automate downloading the albums that were so hard to source on mobile. It began with deadmau5, then
+	 some other artists, and before long I had a library of 800 songs that I could listen to without the permission of some old man in a 
+	 suit (I was using auxio before then, which was open source, but shush). That was the first service that I replaced.
+
+	 Then came the second. After finishing JJK for the second time, I wanted to see the rest of the story. So, I downloaded the manga. To my
+	 server of course. I fired up komga, and then changed my mind when the other options were worse. I finished the manga in about 2 months,
+	 before moving onto one punch man, and now one piece (which is peak btw). There was another purge somewhere in the middle of all of this,
+	 but I was hardly using any of the other services anyway.
+
+	 Finally, there was git. Gitea I mean. My github had become bloated with a load of shit that I didn't want anymore, like old dockerfiles
+	 and non-functional web games. So, I left it all behind. Gitea was a breeze to set up, and I only had to change over a few links on
+	 my local repos in order for it to work. At long last, my config was owned by me. Not microslop
+
+** The final realisation
+	 Kemp loadmaster had seen me through over 4 years of trials and tribulations. It was tried and true, and worked even better when you added
+	 a * entry in cloudflare. However, it was on one fateful night that I sight of a reddit thread complaining about speed on the Free tier.
+	 I clicked, aprehensively, and what I saw next truly rocked me to my core.
+
+	 Free tier bandwidth cap.
+
+	 I immediately googled it, and to my utter shock, The free tier had always been limeted to a measly 20mbps. For reference, I was paying
+	 for 900. No wonder my sites were slow, I thought, no wonder it took 2 minutes to load a word document. I had always attributed responsiveness
+	 to the shit cpu in server02. I would never have thought that my oldest ally would betray me so. So, with a heavy heart, and a somber funeral,
+	 I pulled the plug on the kemp loadmaster for the final time.
+
+** Modern day Homelabbing
+	 Nginx proxy manager was something I had tried to use before, but not understood in the slightest. Turns out, before, I was putting the
+	 urls in the wrong boxes. Once I had switched it over, and given my home assistant vm the ram it deserved, I was finally free.
+	 Cryptpad actually loaded! Git pulls were as fast as they were on github! I was free! Thank God, I was free.
+
+	 Nowadays, I host only what I need on my servers, the latest of which being this Blog site. The only thing I don't use is syncthing, but
+	 you never know when that might come in handy. And yes, I did figure out how to use ssh over cloudflare, and do on a regular basis.
+	 The Arr stack and jellyfin save me from having to crawl through the pirate bay every time I want to watch a movie, and Cryptpad saves me
+	 from the affront to humanity that is onedrive. The last thing I still have to do is switch to grapheneos, but that would be a whole
+	 article within itself too.
+
+** The moral of the story
+	 If I were a youtuber, I would give some do's and dont's on how to set up your own homelab. But, I'm not a youtuber, or knowledgeable.
+	 So, If I had to give some advice, I would say 2 things:
+
+	 If you're going to start, then do it. If you wait until you're ready, you'll be waiting for the rest of your life.
+
+	 And, whatever you do...
+
+	 Stay the fuck away from Zammad.

posts/nix.norg

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+@document.meta
+title: Why Nixos is the Coolest Operating System
+description: I really like Nix
+authors: [
+  Adumh00man
+]
+categories: [
+  linux
+  blog
+  nix
+]
+created: 2026-03-22T19:35:56+00:00
+updated: 2026-03-22T19:43:25+0100
+draft: false
+layout: post
+version: 1.1.1
+@end
+
+* The Nixos Philosophy
+	Nix is the all in one solution to every problem you could have with Linux. It prides itself on being a fully declarative way to install
+	and manage system packages, and It (mostly) achieves those goals. Before trying to involve oneself in such matters, though, an important
+	distinction to make is that Nix as a concept, and a package manager, is seperate from Nixos as a system. Nix can, and should, in some
+	cases, exist outside of Nixos. But, let's get onto that later.
+
+** Origins
+	 If you wanted a full rundown on how nix came about, then you're in the wrong place. Go read wikipedia or something. The main thing that
+	 you need to know is that the nix language, and therefore the packaging system, was made on a whim for a university dissertation. First
+	 of all, that's pretty insane. Making an entire programming language for the sake of it, and I wouldn't even be surprised if he didn't
+	 get full credit. It quickly caught the attention of all the linux nerds out there, and before long it had evolved into the nix project
+	 that we know and love today.
+
+** Reasoning and Methodology
+	 The main draw of nix as a concept is it's reproducability. It works similarly, and often in tandem with, Git. The git working tree is a
+	 simple concept. A long ledger of changes (more commonly called diffs), that when put together results in a full codebase. Nix uses this
+	 principle to its advantage, and I will demonstrate this by comparing nixpkgs with another common package repo, the AUR.
+
+*** The AUR
+		The AUR is the Arch User Repository, a gigantic collection of packages uploaded by anyone that can be asked to figure out how PKGBUILDS
+		work. PKGBUILDS are a form of makefile, that is used as a standard way of declaring dependancies, versions wherein, and how to build
+		a given app. These PKGBUILDS are stored within the repos they are associated with, and are therefore versioned alongside the app.
+		When you upload an app to the AUR, and it is approved, a static version of your app, ie one commit, is hosted on the aur domain. This
+		url is read only, and cannot be viewed like something hosted on github. To install the app, you clone the repo and use `makepkg -si` to
+		compile.
+
+		The key part of all of that is that only one commit is hosted at a time. Because arch is a "rolling release" distro, they
+		see no need to waste storage on older versions of apps. This is an issue, when there is a breaking change and you cannot roll back
+		to an older version of a package, because it no longer exists. This is remedied slightly by the pacman cache, but that only goes for
+		your local machine. If you need a specific version of an app, then either compile from source or give up.
+
+		But, I hear you ask, what happened to git versioning? Can't you just roll back to an older commit and use the PKGBUILD from there?
+		This, my friend, is where Nix comes in.
+
+*** Nixpkgs
+		Nixpkgs is, without exxageration, a git repository. Every time you install a package, the entire repo is pulled to your local machine.
+		Despite the fact that, at the time of writing, it has over 200,000 packages, it is still small enough, because of how diffs work, to
+		be downloaded every time you need to update an app. The reason for this is that it leverages git histories to their maximum potential.
+
+		Git, as I said, is just a long ledger of changes. All diffs are stored in the .git folder, along with some other stuff that might be
+		important to someone someday. Every time you make a commit, a new hash is generated. It isn't important how the hash is generated,
+		just that every commit has a unique hash associated with it. This gives rise to revisions. With this hash, you can address a specific
+		state of the ecode at that commit, and this is what nix uses to stay so small.
+
+		Every package has a .nix file, that details its build process. This can be as simple as compiling one file to a binary, all the
+		way up to compiling the whole linux kernel. Nix in of itself is a wrapper for every other build system, which means that any app
+		that can be built can be run on nix. Hence, when enough apps are compiled, nixpkgs becomes completely self sufficient. For an app
+		to be built with nix, all of its dependancies, and the builder itself, must also be built with nix. This means that, instead of using
+		a manner of different build systems, and rolling release nonsense, that means that you can never be sure if you're getting the same
+		version of a dependancy an app was developed with, you simply call another nix file, at a specific rev, or commit.
+
+		This leads to what is known as a dependancy chain. Because you call every dependancy with a specific rev, you can make sure that you
+		are getting the right version. When you get down to the actual source code, that isn't nix, you download the specified rev of the third
+		party repo, and compile that. If an app compiles once, it will always compile, because the git ledger should never be changed manually.
+
+** In practice
+	 Due to the existence of flakes, something that I'll get to later, this is made much easier. No more "it works on my machine", because,
+	 for all intents and purposes, all machines are identical when running nix. There are no outside dependancies, so there is no way
+	 for an app to fail to compile. Nix as a package manager can be used on other systems, being monolithically configured with one file,
+	 that can be shared and rebuilt on any other machine with (almost) exactly the same functionality.
+
+	 Hang on, this sounds awfully familiar. Like a problem that system integrators have been trying to solve for years, but could only come
+	 so close. And so, the quest for a system built with Nix began.
+
+** Nixos, the coolest operating system
+	 Nixos is what came of that endeavour. A system fully defined by code. A system that could be rebuilt over and over, with exactly the
+	 same result, on multiple machines. This had the added benefit of the same git methodology that nixpkgs was based on. No more updates
+	 that rendered your computer unusable! You could simply revert back to a previous revision of your system, using the same diff structure
+	 that git uses, but with boot entries and packages instead of just code.
+
+	 Nixos is the pinnacle of stability. By definition, there can't be a more stable system. By virtue of the fact that It can be rolled back,
+	 it cannot be defeated in that regard. It is impossible to have conflicting packages, because, in theory, all packages can be installed
+	 alongside eachother. If you want to install 50 different versions of the linux kernel at once, then go ahead! If you want to run 10
+	 different versions of firefox on the same machine, there's nothing stopping you! You get all of the benefits of rolling release, while
+	 also having the option of installing a 5 year old version of onlyoffice in the same breath.
+
+	 And the best part? Your system config, in of itself, can be controlled by git! It's git all the way down! I can instantly have the same
+	 system I did 6 months ago if I wanted to, the only difference being the user files, of course. Ah, the user files.
+
+** Home Manager: An attempt was made
+	 Home manager is the logical extension of Nixos. A way to control dotfiles, or really any file, through nix. Revisions, versioning, etc.
+	 It seems like a good idea on paper, until you try to use it.
+
+	 First of all, the way that home manager works is exactly the same as the nix store. It creates a load of read only folders, and then
+	 generates the immutable config files within. Seems reasonable, why would you want to change them in the first place? Two words: Lock
+	 File. Nvim is the main culprit when it comes to issues like this. The Lazy.lock file can't update, because presumably the entire
+	 `.config/nvim` folder was created by home-manager, meaning that updating packages is nearly impossible. All home manager leads to is a
+	 massive headache at the end of the day. Especially when you come across some unsupported app, where you have to paste in the non-nix
+	 config so that home-manager can copy and paste it into a read only file somewhere else in your home directory.
+
+	 Because of these issues, I have taken a different approach, which I will now go on a tangent about.
+
+** The Better way to manage dotfiles
+	 Stow is an old GNU utility. It calls itself a "symlink farm", which is fancy speak for "it takes files in a directory and links them to
+	 another place". The idea is that you have a folder with all of your dotfiles in, the ones that you actually care about, and stow links
+	 them to your actual .config directory. I used this for a while, in order to manage my hyprland and nvim configs more nicely.
+
+	 Due to the fact it's a GNU utility, however, it's really old. And doesn't have nice features. It was never intended to be a dotfiles
+	 manager, so didn't have the killer feature that I would need to make a proper nix config. Multiple host support.
+
+	 I have 2 machines that I have nix on. My laptop and my desktop. I want a similar experience between the two, but some things I want to be
+	 different. Nixos thought of this, and made it so that you could have different outputs in a flake, that represented different systems.
+	 But what about all my other nonsense? My monitor names are different between the two machines, and I had different keyboard styles, so
+	 wanted different modifiers too! This could be remedied by loads of scripts, but that was boring. I needed something new. Something...
+	 Intuitive.
+
+** Doot: The Fast, Intuitive dotfiles manager
+	 [Doot]{https://github.com/pol-rivero/doot} is my choice for a dotfiles manager. It's fast(ish), configurable, and, most importantly,
+	 was built with multiple hosts in mind. If you want to see how it works more closeley, click the link at the start of this paragraph,
+	 or have a look at my [Dotfiles]{https://git.voidarc.co.uk/voidarc/config}, which I think are pretty cool. For those of you that can't be
+	 asked to have a look, though, I'll explain the concept as simply as I can be bothered.
+
+	 Your doot repo is located in the `.dotfiles` directory, next to .config. When you run `doot install`, the folders in your repo are mapped
+	 to your home directory in the same structure as they were in the repo. Eg, if you put a .zshrc in the root of the repo, it will end up
+	 in the right place. So far, this is exactly the same as stow, the only difference being where stow would link a whole folder, doot
+	 creates the structure in place and only symlinks files.
+
+	 Doot can be configured in the doot folder, in the root of the repo, that will not be mapped to the home directory. The doot config
+	 contains things like exclude files (like .gitignores and licences), the diff viewer you want to use to see file changes, and your
+	 different hosts. Doot manages hosts intelligently, using the hostname of the machine as an indicator. Here is my host config:
+@code toml
+[hosts]
+"HACKSTATION" = "pc-files"
+"mobile02" = "laptop-files"
+@end
+
+	 The keys on the right correspond to the different hostnames, and the keys on the right correspond to the folders that contain the
+	 dotfiles specific to that machine. These folders are located in the root of the repo, and within them, contain another structure
+	 that is relative to your home directory. Eg, in the pc-files directory, there is also a `.config` directory, with some specific hyprland
+	 configs that only work on my PC.
+
+** What was I talking about again?
+	 You could, of course, version every single file on your disk using this method, but that sounds like a waste of time. There will never
+	 be a world where 100% of a system is always generated by nix, because there will always be some random app that only compiles to an
+	 appimage and uses proprietary config locations or something. Nevermind how you would manage something like a download folder.
+
+	 I believe that Nix, and Nixpkgs, is the gold standard when it comes to software development. There are genuine, real world uses for stuff
+	 like this. Sites like replit are fully managed and distributed using nix, because of how stupidly stable it is. You can define whole
+	 Kubernetes clusters on nix, and then update them in place with 0 downtime. Pretty impressive. However, as tends to happen with nerds
+	 on the internet (me included), the concept and utility that comes along with something like nix is buried under who can make the lightest
+	 or best looking config.
+
+** Moral of the story (or something)
+	 Nix isn't for everyone. If you don't care about versioning everything in your entire life, then you're probably better off sticking with
+	 something like arch. If you don't mind that you have slightly different configs across different machines, then there's no need for you
+	 to learn how to use flakes so that you can make sure that you have identical packages on all of your systems.
+
+	 But, It sure is fun to mess around with. If you're on the fence about trying nix, then this is your indicator to switch. It will make
+	 you feel a great deal of things, but regret will not be one of those feelings.

posts/site.norg

@@ -5,14 +5,14 @@ authors: [
 	Adumh00man
 ]
 categories: [
-  Blog
-  Neorg
-  Nvim
-  Voidarc
-  Webdev
+  blog
+  neorg
+  nvim
+  voidarc
+  webdev
 ]
 created: 2026-03-21T11:39:17+00:00
-updated: 2026-03-21T13:41:48+0100
+updated: 2026-03-21T16:07:21+0100
 draft: false
 layout: post
 version: 1.1.1
@@ -100,3 +100,61 @@ version: 1.1.1
 	 Said service would be a simple nginx docker container on some random port, that serves whatever it is asked.
 	 In order for such a service to be viable, I don't want to have to manage it manually. Instead, I can use a webhook to pull the html
 	 repo whenever there is a new commit. This could also be on a timer, but instant gratification is better.
+
+	 Unfortunately, nothing ever goes to plan when linux is involved. The first indicator that my system wasn't going to work out was the fact
+	 that when you rebuilt the site, the repo within the public folder was erased. This is nonsense, and I have already opened an issue so
+	 that when it's fixed I have an excuse to remake the whole system.
+
+	*** Nginx Tangent
+		 Nginx config is at the same time overly-complex and too basic.
+		 It's like python. It looks easy on the surface, but when you get into it, does things in the most roundabout way possible.
+		 Complaints about python aside, nginx is a nightmare to deal with on a usual basis. This is exactly why there are an infinite number
+		 of management solutions for it, one of which I am literally using to host this site (shoutout nginx proxy manager my love).
+		 Unfortunately not all of these solutions can host files at the raw level like I intend to, so here we are, once again, having
+		 to waste hours figuring out why the css is being denied.
+		 For future reference, the nginx config I'm using is as follows:
+@code nginx
+server {
+    listen 80 default_server;
+    listen [::]:80 default_server;
+
+    server_name _;
+
+    root /config/www/public;
+    index index.html index.htm index.php;
+
+    location / {
+        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
+        autoindex on;
+        autoindex_exact_size off; # Displays file sizes in KB/MB/GB instead of bytes
+        autoindex_format html;     # The standard web view
+        autoindex_localtime on;   # Uses the server's local time for file dates
+		}
+@end
+		 To any experienced web developer, such as not myself, this would look like a war crime. Because it is.
+		 This is 100% succeptible to every form of exploit one can think of. However, because I'm running this through nginx proxy manager,
+		 I don't have to worry about such trivial things as "security" and "ssl". Everything is managed in a different docker container!
+		 Thanks NPM.
+
+*** Git tangent
+		Earlier, I said I wanted this to be automatic. And currently, it is. So, how?
+		I host my own shit. That's everything. Including Git.
+
+		Gitea is the least complex option that everyone seems to like enough to tolerate. It also has webhooks. And I have n8n. N8n is an
+		automation engine, that uses flows to achieve what can be done with basic intuition in a systemd service, or an assistant. Sadly, I
+		have neither the time nor money to hire someone to update git repositories for me, so I guess we're doing it with bullshit.
+		Gitea has the ability to trigger webhooks on a push event to a repo, and n8n can trigger commands when a webhook is triggered.
+		This has the side effect of letting me have a repo that, if pushed to, can trigger a webhook that opens firefox on my pc. As you can
+		tell, I shouldn't have permission to use automation tools. By hooking (no pun intended) n8n into gitea, I can run a command over ssh
+		every time the repo is pushed to, so the changes are pulled to the server automatically. The only caveat is that you can't minify
+		the build output, because if you do, any change will rewrite the whole file, which leads to truly insane git diffs. Such is git.
+
+** The Final Result
+	 Everything starts on my local machine. There is a folder in my Documents that contains the repo for the site. This is also set in my nvim
+	 config as a Neorg workspace, so that I can make links between files, if I so wished. When I've written a post, I can build the site
+	 on my local machine, an endeavor that takes a tenth of a second, and commit, with such entertaining messages as "initial" and "changes".
+	 When said commit is pushed to my gitea repo, a webhook is triggered, telling n8n to ssh into server02 and pull the repo into the 
+	 www folder in the nginx docker container. Because nginx isn't 50 years old, all files update on the fly, and the new article appears
+	 on the public facing instance. 
+
+	 See? web development is simple.