Latest update: 2024-04-16
Minor design fix
This awesome warning when a post is outdated was too wide and it looked
like it was shifted to the right. On a mobile screen, the right border was not
visible anymore which was very distrubing. This was simply fixed by removing
the width: 100% CSS rule. I also tried to improve the code blocks by formatting
pre tags. It's not great but at least better now. And to avoid issues with
the cache, the CSS link now uses cache busting.
2022-07-20 18:43:08 +0000 | Read more
Light and dark mode with some redesign
After some redesign I was wondering how hard it would be to support light and dark mode. Personally, I really like it when apps and websites support it. While light mode is blinding me at night, dark mode makes it harder to read the content on bright surroundings. So my point is: It makes sense to support it.
2022-07-19 19:59:23 +0200 | Read more
Relaunch the blog
Since I never maintained rusty-blog and a lot of time passed, all dependencies are outdated finally, the software just crashes when I try to run it. That's why I switched to cobalt for now to built pure static websites.
2022-07-18 23:44:25 +0200 | Read more
Host rusty-blog with NixOS
It's very simple to deploy rusty-blog with NixOS. All you need is a hoster which allows you to boot from a NixOS ISO image so you can run the installer. Since rusty-blog is not part of NixOS, an extension must be installed. Lets rock!
2020-03-13 09:00:00 +0100 | Read more
Going dark
There is a new theme now for this blog which doesn't rely on bootstrap anymore. I was in the mood to play with CSS Grid a little bit and I like how simple and flexible it is.
2020-03-11 23:00:00 +0200 | Read more
Running on NixOS
This blog now runs on NixOS. NixOS is a very exotic and interesting GNU/Linux distribution. It uses the purely functional package manager Nix and provides atomic upgrades and downgrades.
2020-03-05 09:00:00 +2000 | Read more
This week in rusty blog
The main improvements the last two weeks was the improvement of the caching system. The old version cached all the compiled markdown code in memory. Once a file was read and parsed, it was stored there forever. For a deployed blog, this works fine because I usually don't change anything when it's already online. For local editing on the other hand, this is very annoying. There is a switch to turn off the cache which reloads the markdown file on every page request which is very slow with the current markdown crate.
2020-01-19 09:00:00 +0200 | Read more
Idea for a file hosting software
One thing I need is a file sync client/server software like OwnCloud or NextCloud but much more simple to host. Also I want a good encryption model. These are the core feature I need:
2020-01-07 09:00:00 +0200 | Read more
Blog modernization and performance upgrades
Finally I had some time to work on the blog software. This is mainly modernization of the libraries and performance optimizations.
2020-01-04 09:00:00 +0200 | Read more
License and privacy
One of the first things I want to do when I start a blog is to clarify two things: The license and a privacy statement.
2019-11-25 09:00:00 +0200 | Read more
New blog
Once again, I try to start to run a new blog. But now, I write my own blog software. Well I know this is nonsense since there is already a lot of much better weblog software out there and what I write doesn't add any value.
2019-11-24 09:00:00 +0200 | Read more