How this site is made
I built this to learn to process for building and hosting a small site with modern tools. Everything is on my workstation, updated and pushed to Gitea and automatically deployed. I want to use it to document everything I'm doing, including the site itself.
The stack
- generator
- Eleventy (11ty) - static HTML for the site
- source
- self-hosted Gitea
- ci
- Gitea Actions
- build
- Home PC ->CI runner -> published
- host
- Hetzner Cloud VPS - chose Hetzner for privacy and ease of use
- server
- Caddy
- type
- IBM Plex Sans & Mono; Silkscreen for the wordmark
- feeds
- RSS + Atom via eleventy-plugin-rss
- markup
- microformats2
- analytics
- none — no cookies, no trackers
- license
- words CC BY 4.0 · code MIT
last built 2026-07-23