www : My personal website

My name is Julien Dessaux, also known by my pseudonym Adyxax : welcome to my personal website!

These pages are an aggregation of various thoughts and tutorials I accumulated over my years of service as a system and network administrator and architect. Topics covered are open source, BSD and GNU/Linux system administration, and networking. It is a personal space that I try to fill up with my experience and knowledge of computer systems and network administration in the hope it serves others. You can learn more about me on this page.

I hope you feel welcome here, do not hesitate to leave a message at julien -DOT- dessaux -AT- adyxax -DOT- org. You can ask for a translation, some more details on a topic covered here, or just say hi or whatever ;-)

Have a good time!

Dependencies

go is required for the search feature. Only go version >= 1.22 on linux amd64 (Gentoo) is being regularly tested.

hugo is required in order to build the website html pages. Only hugo >= 0.111.3 is being regularly tested.

buildah is optionally required in order to build the container images with my deploy script.

Quick Start

There is a makefile with everything you need, just type make help (or gmake help if running BSD).

Hugo

Contrary to popular usage, I do not use a theme with hugo. I decided to simplify write my own in order to keep it light and simple. Here is a breakdown of each folder's contents:

assets/: css files, which will be compiled into a single minified file.
content/: markdown files
- blog/: blog section of this website.
- books/: a log of simple reviews of books I read.
- docs/: wiki like section, where information is not sorted just chronologically like in the blog section.
- search/: dummy section I need for the search feature.
deploy/: container images building script.
layouts/: html, json and rss templates. Also some useful hugo shortcodes.
search: the go program that powers the search feature.
static: favicon, blog images and schematics.

Search

Hugo can easily generate a json index of the website, and according to my google-fu hugo users use javascript solutions to implement search on top of this. I was not satisfied by the idea of having javascript download the whole website index and running searches locally, but I found no alternative. Since I love having a javascript free website I wanted to keep it that way if possible, so I designed an alternative.

The search folders contains code for a go webservice that can handle search queries and serve results. It is fully integrated in the container images build process to maintain a coherent look with the website. For more details, see the related blog article.

Kubernetes