my website
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@circular
- 2 Devlogs
- 13 Total hours
The rewrite of my website, in Svelte.
Ship #1
I finished rewriting my website in Svelte!!
I’ve modernised several parts of the website compared to the old Astro version, and also just given the website more character.
I made the lastfm music status run over websocket instead of GET requests, made the CI/CD pipeline faster and more resilient, and added a lot more content compared to the old version.
I started working on this rewrite about 5 months ago, but didn’t make much progress on it because I just didn’t have much motivation. I picked up the rewrite again a few weeks ago and decided to do it as part of Stardance, and I’m super happy with the end result!
I’m still gonna be adding stuff to the website over time though, as it is nowhere near being fully complete. This is just the first iteration I can properly publish.
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my website is finally done!!!
i did the finishing touches to my site and finished the CI/CD pipeline for it!
the old pipeline i had was.. clunky. it kinda sucked, it built my website on a github actions runner then copied the files over to my vps with scp and tailscale which was a pain to maintain and was slow as hell!!!!
instead now i’ve made a small project called minibuild (https://github.com/circularsprojects/minibuild) that runs any specified script when it receives a specific github webhook (in this case, it runs a script to build my site when the “push” webhook is triggered).
still gonna add some more stuff to my site over time, but this is the first actual published version!
you can check it out at https://circulars.dev
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After working on my new website for about three weeks, I’ve finally decided to make a project and a devlog about it. I’ve been rewriting my website (https://circulars.dev) in Svelte for a while now, (I originally started the rewrite about four months ago) but I’ve only recently picked it up again and actually put work into it.
I’ve redesigned how I showcase my projects and socials off on my website, added a cool background (that only uses css gradients), improved the lastfm status to be websocket based and update automatically, rather than only update upon visiting the site.
The site is mostly done, I just need to touch up a few more things and then I need to tackle the issue of automatically building and deploying the site. My previous site used a github action to build and copy the site files over to my own server, but this pipeline fell apart for.. some reason. i don’t know why.
I’m making a new pipeline that will use github webhooks to trigger builds of my website on my own server, avoiding some of the biggest pitfalls associated with github actions, and I’m making it with Rust.
My pipeline will be powered by a little program I’m making called “minibuild”, a lightweight program that accepts webhook pushes, compares the secret token and signature, and then runs a script if they line up. Not only will this be exactly what I need for my site, but I’ll also be able to use it for any other project that requires this sort of setup.
Once minibuild is done, I can finally deploy my new site!!!
