MyJekyllBlog VS prehistoric-simulation

I’ve been working on building a web hosting platform.

https://github.com/symkat/MyJekyllBlog - It’s centered around hosting Jekyll blogs. It supports having paid user accounts (Stripe), building sites (uses podman containers), deploying built sites to web servers, obtaining SSL certificates for the sites it hosts.

It’s been really fun to work on.

Thanks!

GitHub Pages is a closed source hosting platform. MyJekyllBlog is open source and MIT licensed.

As far as I’m aware, you cannot spin up your own version of GitHub Pages to host things for yourself and offer those hosting services to others. MyJekyllBlog encourages this and has a guide (https://github.com/symkat/MyJekyllBlog#installation-guide) for setting it up yourself.

The system itself is written in Perl: The panel you use to manage Jekyll files is a Mojolicious app: https://github.com/symkat/MyJekyllBlog/tree/master/Web The source of truth for the system is Postgres with DBIC: https://github.com/symkat/MyJekyllBlog/tree/master/DB The code that runs the builds and deploys things are written as Minion jobs.

The code can be found here: https://github.com/symkat/MyJekyllBlog/

Each blog is its own Jekyll folder, and there is a plugin (https://github.com/symkat/MyJekyllBlog/blob/master/Web/lib/MJB/Web/Plugin/Jekyll/Blog.pm) for interacting with that file system.

Wouldn't say I got a lot better by writing small and medium sized personal hobby project, but it most definitely did get me confidence and satisfaction.

A cellular automata runner where you can define the rules and watch what happens: https://aperocky.com/cellular-automata/

Browse THIS website in terminal: https://github.com/Aperocky/hnterminal

A random simulation of prehistoric civilization and market: https://prehistoric.tech/

Every few months I get a bubbly idea and start some fun project, and they are usually small enough I get to finish them in a week or so, package them either on the web or pip/npm. It feels like a boost to occasionally boring work otherwise.

This is where tests come in, it helps tremendously at the end of the day to have a little check mark, proof that work is done, even if it is purely mental.

Anecdotally it also helps me pick projects up after years.

shameless plugs:

https://prehistoric.tech/

https://aperocky.com/cellular-automata/

Self promoting plug:

It still works fairly well on the relatively small scale if you just want to write a frontend app (i.e. simulations):

https://aperocky.com/cellular-automata

https://prehistoric.tech

Now that I think of it, I've created something that has a minimum level of correlation...

http://prehistoric.tech/

Though this one is more about society simulation then evolution, it does come with a command line for control.