Til

Today I learned how to use GitHub Actions to automatically deploy this page to my webserver upon using git push. I had previously used a pre-defined GitHub Action to deploy a .NET app to Azure functions. I wanted to learn more about what actually happens in a GitHub Action. Luckily, there is a well-documented repository for uploading files via ftp on GitHub. I’ve provided the links that I’ve used for learning below....

My first TIL is about the process of creating this very own homepage. I found the idea of a static site generator difficult to wrap my head around. Having worked with Wordpress before, everything was much more manual. The documentation of themes differed wildly and only after picking up a different theme was I able to understand what is being done in Hugo. I started with the Ananke Theme but migrated over to PaperMod after watching a YouTube Tutorial that used PaperMod as an example....