Source to Deploy, directly

I had enough free time to throw together this project site over the holidays. Without any real networking knowledge, I snagged on basics for hours; the worst by far¹ was the webhooks. Ultimately, the 3 guides I referenced didn’t mention that network points and nodes (?) have their own rules for port forwarding:

• Cloudflare has a very short whitelist²,
• Most distros, and particularly webhost distro images (I imagine), require port whitelisting through iptables/nftables backends typically managed with ufw

Basically, any point along the source -> browser pipe can block you. And if it’s github webhooks -> dns resolver (cloudflare) -> webhost (digitalocean) -> server running webhook package systemd service -> router -> endpoint, it’s dicey. It’s understandable that a guide wouldn’t include this information; it’s obvious to an expert, and beginners will probably just start with git pulls on a cronjob/systemd timer.

Build and Test

I’ve been careful not to interfere with Hugo’s default build process hugo; it also handles testing beautifully through hugo server. My only hangup was forgetting my browser caches recently visited webpages: something that Hugo explicitly warns you about in the documentation (that I read a month ago).

I was annoyed by customizability issues in the devise theme, but they were recently added as features, so I dodged build scripts with toml tinkering³. I’m considering more complex html elements if they don’t impact page size which might require forking the devise theme to not complicate the build process.