A new cluster a new blog
In the process of moving house (a year ago) my original Raspberry Pi cluster that housed this blog died, or became so overly complicated and cluttered that I decided to start a fresh.
Previously this blog was a WordPress install, which is great, very powerful but overkill for my simple needs. The journey that got me here didn't start out as “let's resurrect my blog”, I was actually looking for a light weight journalling tool.
My as yet unrealised plan was to take all the messages of the day from people relevant to work and personal life be it on email, slack and possibly other platforms and through the power of AI create a journal entry each day – automatically.
Anyway, that has yet to materialise but my journaling requirements were that I wanted an easy to use tool that I could self host, had an API and supported markdown for simple AI-friendly formatting.
There are probably hundreds, definitely tens of options. Eventually I settled on writefreely. It's written in go, is super light weight, has an API, you can self host and it's based around markdown.
Anywho, it's day one of using it. So far so good.
If you want to have a play yourself I crudely documented my setup here: