🎯 Today’s Goal

I decided to openly share my build in public journey. I’ll take a 2-3 day break from development to start the necessary work for building in public and aim to finish it within 2-3 days.

✅ What I Did

  • Hugo installation & will use it together with Obsidian
  • Reviewed hextra , hugo-bearblog and PaperMod themes
  • Extensive customizations on hugo-bearblog
  • Cloudflare DNS configuration
  • Email account creation with Cloudflare Email Routing
  • SSL certificate purchase from SSLS.com
  • Prepared deploy.yml file for GitHub Actions
  • FTP installation on server and deployment testing
  • Prepared “About” page
  • Created templates for “Journey” and “Articles”

🔄 For Tomorrow

  • Open Reddit account
  • Open Twitter account

💡 Thoughts

I set up a small blog for my build in public shares. The customization process took longer than I expected. After deployment, buildopen.dev started redirecting to yourdomain.bedpage.com. At first, I suspected the temporary meta refresh redirect I had set up. Everything looked normal in the local environment, but the redirect behaved differently in prod. I solved the problem by changing the Hugo page structure, but I still haven’t found the exact reason for the redirect. Could one of the Chrome extensions I developed have affected it? ⌛

Another challenge was that Yandex had removed its free business email service. I wasted time on this but quickly solved it with Cloudflare Email Routing.

Many ideas emerged today, and I archived the ones I found valuable. I haven’t had a chance to validate them yet 😀

📊 Stats

MetricValue
Work Time14 hours
Commits9+
Tea12 cups 🍵