More to come on this. Briefly, a Dell T3600 workstation I bought about 6 years ago on Craigslist for $200. A $7 Xeon CPU from eBay and 64GB of DDR3 ram. Four hard drives and an SSD. Proxmox and several VMs. This machine is a combination of cheap and old, and new and expensive (HDDs recently…). It's running several services for me including remote backups for a friend now. Not bad for something that might otherwise be e-waste!

This website has been on the back burner for so long now, and I've finally taken the time to do something about it and make it usable.

Previously, this site was all hand-written HTML and CSS that I put together on the road trip that's documented in the travel log. I've long wanted to do something a bit easier than hand-closing every tag, even if that's made easier by web-mode etc. So I've rewritten this site for basic export using org-mode's publishing feature. I will report back after some use on how it's going. So far it's taken only an hour or so to set up (not including fiddling with my git repo). Just taking the happy path for now and relying on examples mostly. Once I figure it all out I'll make the repo public and link it here.