New and Improved Blog Setup and Life Updates!

Happy November everyone! I already have my tree setup and my indoor decor out, so it’s cozy as hell in this apartment. Figured I’d post a mini update now that I’ve revamped the backend to my site. I’ve gotten into self hosting after a friend gave me an extra device to use as a server, so I finally went ahead and set up a proper CMS backend so my blog posts can be managed in a more typical fashion.

Before I was saving html files to a folder in Dropbox, then I used Dropbox’s API to fetch those documents, using their locations to parse category and NSFW/SFW metadata from it. It was very janky and updating anything meant directly updating those files and busting the cache so updates would apply.

Now that I have this mini server, I decided to go ahead and self host an instance of Directus. It’s a CMS system that’s essentially just the back end management side. This allows me to have an internal system I can use to manage my posts without editing files directly. It also will allow me to expand on potential features for my site! For example, implementing direct commenting on the post instead of using BlueSky. Not sure if I’ll do so, but the opportunity is there! Maybe I’ll do a draw pile or something…

Anyways, things here are getting better slowly but surely. Work’s been keeping me super busy, but I’ve started to look at my side projects again and poking around at them. Not willing to commit to showing anything because I want to focus on working on them for myself rather than having something to post. Once I feel I have a better handle on all the things I want to get back to streaming, but I don’t want to worry about hitting that fixed stream schedule yet, so stay tuned!