I recently realized that my web server was still on Debian Buster, 2 whole major versions behind the latest Debian version. Normally this kind of thing wouldn’t matter to me except that my matrix-synapse server was unable to federate with matrix synapse servers running newer versions. I normally run rolling release distributions on my local machines (I use Void btw) and it had been a long time since I tried this kind of upgrade. I went in hopeful that it would be straightforward.

I recently had interest in starting to work on the implementation of the Concurrent Atomistic-Continuum Method using C++ to take advantage of GPU acceleration. As a first step, I began thinking about where I wanted to host my project. I decided to add hosting my own git server to my list of self-hosted services, including e-mail and matrix chat server. This is a quick guide on how I set up Gitea and configured it on my website. As a note, my web server is a Debian machine using Nginx

Now that I’ve graduated from my PhD, I find that I have more free time that was previously spent working on my dissertation. I also have the desire to continue to publish in some manner. My solution to both of these problems is to revamp my previous website which I only used as a portfolio site for job search purposes into a random blog.

In my time online I once came across a talk titled The Website Obesity Crisis. Since I’m already obsessed with minimalist systems, obligatory “I use Artix Linux and run dwm,” I internalized everything immediately and searched for the best way to design a modern and actually minimalist website (both design and size). I decided to try and serve a website which followed the design paradigm of the web pyramid graphic shown below: