19 Sept 2018

Blog Entry Still Under Construction

Rolling your own

First off I wanted to have my own website. I have always meant to make one but just have never actually gotten around to making it. I thought about jus t using an off-the-shelf solution and originally planned to do that. However I also like to code and doing your own projects helps you to become a better programmer. So I decided to write my own website, blog engine, and a few other things that I wanted to make.

This site is then a combination of my home website and resume, the code and technology behind the website is also part of that resume.

The Technologies

1. Go
• LetsEncrypt and autocert
• http package
• template package
2. HTTP2 - Go http server by default support http2
3. HTML - Obviously

Core Site Features

Blog entries are written in standard html and injected using go templates.

In Progress / Still to do

• Blog Indexing by keywords
• Link Aggregator
• Blog Editing Interface (right now all editing is done by committing html files to the repo)
• Generalizing content loading - currently it is very hand-routed