# Hello

Express ideas in text format is not an easy task but as time passes I realize
it is a critical skill in Software Development/Engineering role. I've been
thinking in start a blog since the last year but it seemed to be too much 
work to create my blog from the bottom up, the first idea was a Django app
with a management system for posts or setup some external tool with a
custom DNS, one way or another my goal was to have the simplest blog possible.

# Searching for existing tools 

At a first glance at the market, I discovered interesting tools like 
Substack¹, but it looked too serious and "Medium-like". To my surprise,
turns out that "minimalistic blogs" are a thing, and from what I found Hugo²
and Jekyll³ are the ones which do the job well. Well... But the design wasn't a problem
since I work in Backend and I intend to share knowledge via posts like this
initially.

# The realization

Fast forward, to the other day I was doing some maintenance work in some legacy systems at my 
job and it required me to check Nginx docs constantly, after a couple of weeks I got to realize
that it was exactly what I need for a minimal blog. I remembered having seen something
about Nginx's "autoindex" directive before, but I didn't get too far in it at that time.

# Result

After a couple of days trying to set it up properly... It's alive, this blog runs
on Nginx only, it has no backend application and no database. The setup is easy as you
only have to have a "Dockerfile" and an "nginx.conf", by the way, if want to have
a blog exactly like this, you can copy these files from the project's GitHub page:
https://github.com/Drunpy/blog


# Future

The plan is to keep developing new features but to keep it as minimal as possible.

- I'm planning to implement an RSS feed because I bet that more people will
reconsider RSS readers after the implosion of Twitter under Elon Musk's command.

- Another thing is Analytics, Cloudflare Web Analytics is holding it, for now, but 
I'm amazed at how hard is to find an analytics service that works with proxying requests.

- A simple chat or comment system where people can interact with the content/each
other wouldn't be a bad idea.

# The end

Thanks for reading here, you can expect more content related to Computer Science
topics, backend development, and others.

# Links & Mentions

1.: https://substack.com
2.: https://gohugo.io
3.: https://jekyllrb.com



Lorran Rosa, Rio de Janeiro - 19/11/202.