Welcome to my GitHub profile. This is the best place to find all my stuff while I finish setting up my personal website & blog. Read on for more information and all of the links.
If you haven't already guessed, I'm a software developer. I also sometimes do scientific research — mostly about bats 🦇 — and I like to write and teach about programming and data science. For the full story, take a sneak peak at my about me article. My resume is also available.
You can actually find all my articles here, on GitHub. I'm slowly collecting development logs, tutorials, and other long-form articles about my various interests. Eventually, there will be a nice place to read them all on my personal website. But, my weblog repository will still be the canonical source.
I've been documenting my all my ongoing projects in a series of development log articles. These articles cover my design decisions and implementation challenges I encountered.
- Setting Up SvelteKit for a Personal Weblog
- Exploring CI/CD for a Modern (SvelteKit) Web Application
- Designing a Content Template
- Implementing a Weblog Markdown Parser
Right now I'm deep in the process of building my personal website to host my blog content. The project has two main components:
- a generic blog/portfolio template,
blank; - and the deployment pipeline which configures and deploys the template,
folio.
If you're curious about the end goal, you can check out the design file. And if you want to read more about my progress, check out my development logs.
As a personal philosophy, I believe anything can be repurposed. While building out my personal website, I chose to abstract out anything specific to myself. The result was a opinionated, minimalistic template for a personal blog and/or portfolio.
The application uses the meta-framework SvelteKit, to build a server-side rendered web application. Page generation is configured at runtime to provide real-time updates to content, themes, and other application settings.
I am developing the template features alongside my personal website. The planned features include:
- Themeable palettes, typography, layouts, and graphics;
- Embedded, theme integrated, SVG graphics;
- Concurrent theme support;
- Git integration for content management;
- Markdown blog post rendering;
- Blog post indexing, tagging, and searching;
- Ad-hoc static HTML pages.
My personal website serves as an ideal example for the blank template.
And in turn the folio repository defines a deployment pipeline to configure
and deploy the blank template,
complete with config files, content, and instructions for setting up a
deployment environment.
The deployment pipeline relies heavily on the included BASH scripts to automate Docker container builds and run Terraform deployments. It also includes:
- Automated tests for all application, pipeline functionality, and environment state;
- GitHub commit status integration;
- Optional GitHub actions workflows for automated CI/CD;
- Concurrent deployment environments;
- Automated TLS certificate provisioning (via Caddy);
- Sentry error monitoring integration;
- Grafana Loki application log aggregation;
- Integrated CDN provisioning;
- Configurable hosting providers (currently requires DigitalOcean, GCS, and Cloudflare accounts).
Feel free to reach out: