alecto.dev

About this site

· #meta

A few bits of information that may be of interest.

  1. This site is built with zola

  2. Cloudflare Pages is used to host & deploy the site: when I push changes to github, those changes are deployed live, usually within a couple minutes (it is very convenient).

    I recommend it for anyone with a static site because (1) it’s free, and (2) it has very nice integration with github. push-to-deploy is so nice, and it accepts custom build commands.

    The support for custom build commands is quite nice, because…

  3. After the site is build with zola, a script is used to append a hash to all urls which point to resources hosted under alecto.dev. This allows me to (1) enable caching, and (2) ensure that all visitors receive the most up-to-date version of stylesheets, images, and other assets, without the need for custom image shortcodes.

    Screenshot of build configuration for the site

… This last bit is a small technical detail that I’m proud of. Being able to use the standard markdown image syntax instead of {{ image(path="images/my-photo.jpg", alt="Description of photo") }} or get_url(path=path, cachebust=true) is quite nice.