Introduction

Hello!

If you stumble upon this page without visiting the main page first, I highly recommend that you do.

Anyhow, I’m a mere computer science major, and this blog here is for me to rant about stuff, mostly about software and the like, as well as documenting my thoughts.

The website

I did not build this website from scratch at all. I simply fork the source code from my friend’s page, change some content, add a workflow to deploy to Github page, and behold: a website!

The struggles

Since I didn’t know anything about Astro, as well as being a noob with Git-related stuff, I encountered a lot of problems, ranging from creating a pull request in that friend’s repo, to spending 2 hours trying to figure out how Github Action won’t build the damn project already (I just needed to specify the package manager in Astro action).

Was that scuff?

Yes.

Was it worth it?

Yeah, kind of, for the experience.

The conclusion

In the end, it took me roughly 5 hours to get the website up and running, but it was quite a satisfying experience because I learned something new.

The plan going forward

As you can see, this website is currently being hosted on Github, with a Github-provided domain.

Since I’m still broke at the moment, custom domain or self-hosting is out of the picture. However, I will do my best to achieve either one of those two objectives, or both of them in the future.