Why Is This Site Built with C

Why Is This Site Built With C Created at: 2024-08-26 I've been writing about things on a personal website since 2017. Most of what I have written features in the category of notes-to-self. Mostly on how to do A or B. Only recently I've started polishing notes together and forming posts on specific topics. One thing I realised was preventing me of writing more frequently wasn't the lack of ideas (or motivation), but the trouble of having to deal with the website builder and platform I was using at the time. GitHub pages didn't exist at the time and the canonical way was to have an Apache server running the website in some web provider. I didn't know anything about Apache and the little I saw didn't interest me, so I looked for an alternative. I built my first website with Django (serviced by Nginx) in a server hosted on Digital Ocean. This is before the Droplets-era, so I had to rent an Ubuntu machine which costed $5.00 USD per month. That was a bit steep for a dev on a Brazilian ... Read full article.