Migrating This Bear Blog
I've been busy with my head down working on something I've been wanting for a while, and it's only now with my current acquired knowledge of web development and even the CI/CD pipeline that it has come to fruition. I recently got my website to a point where it is good enough to serve as my centralized internet identity: everything about me online will reside there.
It was vital to me that this kind of serious and personal endeavor be completely owned by me. While not everything is completely self-hosted, it is to an extent that I'm fine with. I ditched GitHub and set up my own Forgejo instance,1 especially after all of the outages seriously impacted my work. Then, I set up a runner on my homelab server to pass my git pushes from my computer to Forgejo, and then deploy the built results to Cloudflare Pages. I already have my domain set up with Cloudflare, so I decided that would be a decent place to keep my site running.
My ideal is that I can easily utilize the flexibility of Astro as an open-source web framework to do way more things that a minimalist platform like Bear Blog can't do. Nothing wrong with being minimalist, but I like doing goofy things to my site. I also wanted it to have longevity that I control, so I can keep it up for as long as possible.
Okay, so on to the site. My personal site is at preahs.com, and includes information about my personal life, career goals, and of course, my blog work. I've already migrated all of my posts over from here and implemented an RSS feed and category system, and am incredibly pleased with the results.
If you want to continue following my life and my content, please subscribe to the RSS feed on my new site. I will not be updating this one after this post. I know it's inconvenient, but this change was necessary for me.
Many new things need to be added. I have a lot of practical and ridiculous ideas in mind for it, but one thing at a time. You will continue to see my site grow as I grow over the years. I'm beyond excited to see how it turns out.