Caffeinated Blog

A recent post from Alan Pope, Mastodon Instances, Everywhere, reminded me that I also used to run a Mastodon instance back when it was all still new and shiny. My instance ran for awhile and had a few users and I actually enjoyed being on the network. It was much more civil and discussions seemed friendlier than Twitter. Eventually, I shut my instance down as it took more and more sysadmin time, was quite resource hungry and their updates did not always go smoothly.

As part of wanting to go through and reorganise my various sites and blogs, so I (once again) have a place to write again, I have switched over to Hugo as my content system. I have just spun up a new web host with Apache and Git to automatically pull site changes from the repo and publish them. It’s all working beautifully so far.