Switching to Hugo
2015-07-05 - Chris Bergeron - ~1 Minute
So after experimenting with Pelican , Strapdown , and trying my hand at doing pure Bootstrap and HTML, I finally found Hugo and I like it quite a bit.
The initial setup took me a bit because the documentation, while clear, doesn’t really provide a walkthrough as much as a brief show and tell.
On the positive, once you get it all set, nice clean static html is yours for the serving.
Huzzah!
HHVM Surprisingly Successful
2014-17-02 - Chris Bergeron - ~1 Minute
So, I’m pleasantly surprised by how much progress they’ve made with HHVM . Not only did it run my little experimental pages and such, but it ran my TT-RSS install like a champ once I switched to a MariaDB back-end. If they start getting more of the database extensions and what-not working, it’s going to be pretty powerful little server.
The new hhvm-cgi bit is also pretty interesting. With the right rules in nginx , you could probably have the best of all worlds in your page/app on which to send to FPM versus HHVM.
For now I’m sticking to pure FPM because I need the PostgreSQL back-end to make reader usable, but who knows. Maybe next release I’ll be moving to HHVM.
Exciting times!
HHVM Experimentation
2014-07-02 - Chris Bergeron - ~1 Minute
The last time I was fussing with HHVM , I could only get Wordpress to work, with everything else I tried either having problems or failing pretty spectacularly .
However, that was version 2.1.0, and I’m told that 2.4.0 is out with a lot more compatibility, so I’m going to put that into my experimentation environment and see if I can make it go.
Not sure how much benefit I’d see since the only thing I’m running PHP with now is reader , but it’ll be fun to experiment with again either way.
Switched to Pico and PostgreSQL for Reader
2013-19-08 - Chris Bergeron - ~1 Minute
Decided to switch the site over to Pico .
So far so good. It also allowed me to get off of MySQL/MariaDB completely and move to PostgresSQL for Reader .
Now I just have to get better with Markdown and all will be well!
PageSpeed Ho!
2013-23-07 - Chris Bergeron - ~1 Minute
Now running the site with PageSpeed , doesn’t seem to be doing a whole lot yet, but why not.
Reader seems faster at least.
Also, word to the wise, do not use the nginx official repo with Ubuntu unless you backup your configs first.
It has a totally different structure/user/etc.