The journey

Last couple of years my side project where about generating C4 diagrams and AI. The C4 project appeared too difficult to make it generic. The AI project resulted in some Jupyther notebooks, but creating validated datasets is nowadays much more difficult than the coding. So what to do next?

So now I want to write a book and first thing was an overhaul my website, you can read about that here. While doing so, I thought maybe I should also automatically create the VM for hosting? With a deployment pipeline so when I change something it gets live immediately. Born was my new side project: Hosting for small businesses.

Having learned from the other two projects, that ended with useless half-baked products, I decided to practice what I always preach: Ship it to production ASAP. So the first thing I needed is working website in production. This resulted in a set up with Hugo, Cloudflare DNS and render.com. (All free except for the domain registration).

After some soul-searching, (do you really need it for the goal) and conscience consulting (I want to use cool tech) I came to this list of things I want to do and write about. (no this is not a backlog and these are not stories).

[ ] Fast and easy new website (Git template some easy editing tool)
[ ] Fast and easy deployment (Script the configuration of render.com and Cloudflare)
[ ] More control (host on a Linux VM)
[ ] Less maintenance (Automatically create and configure the VM)
[ ] Scale up (Kubernetes)

Maybe mail hosting, monitoring and reporting. And I also have to cut in some software development so maybe I will finish my first two projects also :-).

So this is what I will be working on and writing about in my free time. This should result in my book about today’s IT.

Keep following me to read about how it goes.