Making This Site

First off I gotta make it clear this is made with Ruby on Rails not because it's necessarily a great language or frame work but because I just think it's neat. I like the philosophy used to make the language, I like the database abstractions it provides though those aren’t used much here and I like how the language reads. I also have a soft spot for the block structuring because it reminds me of JustBasic which I learned coding with back in my freshman year of high school. Any day I can write an unless statement is a wonderful day hehe. Anyways I’ve made quite a few quick and easy rails apps over the years; it’s pretty much my go to but I never had my own hosting but now I have a desktop in my basement that runs a small network of docker images so I figured I could host one through that especially since my nginx image was already doing most of the work. Design wise I hate boring dark/light mode sites so I made mine bouncy, colorful and fun. The layout is inspired by Bandcamp and similar personal sites I’ve seen in the past few years. I always do a repeating background and this one is jackalopes because I like their vibe and they’re something I gained a liking of from my mother. The colors for the background are made to be like a tangerine because I like those colors a lot (though I am allergic to tangerine hehe). Other than that I tried animate.css to make it bouncy and it gets the job done as you can see on the blog page which I will endeavor to keep fresh with reviews and other stuff. The coral pink nav bars were a fun mistake. I just saw the color and went “wait that rocks”. Also for the accounts I use the devise library which pretty much handles everything. The primary key is email so I use that to decide if I let you access the new post route… so if you sign up you’re just giving me your email… thanks? Anyways thank you for reading my first post. The next one won’t be nerd stuff since I know this isn’t for everyone. Though expect a post about navidrome for my fellow dork dome residents. The one and only, Ben.