jekyll-feed VS vpncloud

XML feeds are often generated by templating, rather than actual XML serialisation. The official Jekyll Feed plugin has this: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-feed/blob/master/lib/jekyll...

JSON is much more easily generated by a valid generator, and less likely to face serialisation issues.

Awesome. I was able to get this going easily enough on my jekyll-created site that uses the jekyll-feeds plugin. You just have to name the template right and it just works.

https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-feed/#custom-styling

Disable Jekyll-feed plugin from _config.yml

It looks like this [1] plugin [2] is supported in jekyll / GitHub pages [3].

So, it seems like adding RSS / Atom feeds on a jekyll or GitHub pages site is pretty straightforward.

1. https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-feed

2. https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-s...

3. https://pages.github.com/versions/

Nice site! Another fellow note-taker inspired by Gilles Castel I see ;) Would you be willing to add an RSS feed to your site so people can follow it and get updates? It's been a while since I used jekyll but I think you just need to add jekyll-feed to the Gemfile and config.yml. See here

There is again an easy way out with the jekyll-feed plugin. Add the plugin, do a bundle install and the feed should start appearing at /feed.xml.

I was afraid of that. I was starting to think that how my Atom feed is created is not properly formed XML. I'm using this to build the feed, https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-feed/blob/master/lib/jekyll-feed/feed.xml. See line number 66 for the content I'm talking about ({{ post.content | strip | xml_escape }}). Maybe I just can't do what I'm trying to accomplish using only XSLT. I just wanted to have the option for the user of having the summary or the full on content with HTML markup and all. BTW, the file I referenced is written with Liquid Template Language.

I have tried using the provided theme like Minima but, I just don’t like it after all. That’s why I think it’s better to create my own. I tried to create the simplest design as long as it is easy to be read. I used Coolors, Google Font, Rogue, Jekyll Paginate, Jekyll Feed, and write a bit of Ruby, CSS, and JS for creating the theme itself. I didn’t think creating this simple blog costs me 2 Saturdays, even though it only consists of as many as 3 pages.

Another tool worth looking at is vpncloud (https://github.com/dswd/vpncloud). I used to use tinc, but switched to vpncloud 2 years ago.

In my use case, I have a modest number of nodes. Although nodes learn of other nodes from each other, I use ansible to keep each node's config updated.

I use vpncloud (and previously, tinc) between docker hosts. So, you have to be careful about interface MTU's inside of docker, particularly if you use containers based on Alpine.

I think one of the reasons is that people confuse physical servers with manual administration. As I said, I do not do manual administration. Nothing ever gets configured on any server by hand. All administration is through ansible.

I only have one ansible setup, and it can work both for virtualized servers and physical ones. No difference. The only difference is that virtualized servers need to be set up with terraform first, and physical ones need to be ordered first and their IPs entered into a configuration file (inventory).

Of course, I am also careful to avoid becoming dependent on many other cloud services. For example, I use VpnCloud (https://github.com/dswd/vpncloud) for communication between the servers. As a side benefit, this also gives me the flexibility to switch to any infrastructure provider at any time.

My main point was that while virtualized offerings do have their uses, there is a (huge) gap between a $10/month hobby VPS and a company with exploding-growth B2C business. Most new businesses actually fall into that gap: you do not expect hockey-stick exponential growth in a profitable B2B SaaS. That's where you should question the usual default choice of "use AWS". I care about my COGS and my margins, so I look at this choice very carefully.

I'm not a fan of IPFS (I've tried it many times, from the beginning), but Hypercore has made significant improvements. If you're looking for FLOSS mutable torrents, that's probably the best we've got right now (as scary as that may be). Cockroachdb, VPNCloud, and raTox might also be worth your time. At the very least, I could see value in making it expensive to play whack-a-mole on those who are willing to host. Ideally, it would be effortless to mirror or contribute back.