After my digitalocean team dissolved, I migrated from a $4/mo droplet to github pages for free. I:

• could’ve avoided webhooks entirely
• saved money in the process

But, I:

• centralized my services,
• lost privacy,
• can only serve static pages

so who’s to say.

Surprisingly, the build pipeline was the easiest migration component, and enabling https was the hardest; CNAME records interfere with SSL certs. I hung on some DNS records until I decided to remove the cloudflare step. I’m not sure if I ever bothered setting up https on the droplet, but it definitely would’ve been easier with a shell.

Images are still broken; I’ve procrastinated learning git-lfs; that seems to have paid off now that my environment is centralized. Clear next step given that I’m waiting to test covid-negative before going to any meetup to resume spot-welding broken battery components.

Update: while I fixed git lfs rendering issues¹, it is a smooth yak. The current pipeline for a photo is:

• Phone camera, adb over network on, adb connect $PHONEIP:5555 or just plug it in and adb devices to start the daemon
• adb shell ls in_dir | rg IMG | sort -h | tail -n $1 to get the filenames of the $1 latest photos taken on the phone sorted by timestamp
• adb exec-out cat in_dir/photo.jpg | convert - -resize 1200x800 out_dir/$2/photo.jpg to transcode the raw photo with imagemagick’s convert function (rather than serve 6MB images²) and dump the result here.

I don’t run this next portion because it interacts with the internet, so it’s a bad solution, but

• git lfs pull
• return githubusercontent URLs to stdout for script no_of_latest_photos -static_subdir dir | xclip -sel c or similar