Custom Homepage

[eric]

I have created a custom homepage that provides a minimalist alternative to many of the services I have deployed on this network and discussed in other threads. You can check it out here:

https://eom.dev/

I have written about it more extensively on its internal discussion board (which is powered entirely by email). You can read more here:

https://eom.dev/archive/Mail/raw/Hello_world_e362syzxskwfsnesmstsjwtkcpx2ksflkhpbcpu54aezpty4zi_vpkg3hbwir5w.txt

For the time being, I am going to experiment with both platforms side-by-side. As I discussed in the aforementioned post, each has its benefits and I will have to see which works better for my needs. I’d love to hear the thoughts of existing Discourse users on this concept. Which do you prefer?

[eric]

Decommissioned

That didn’t last very long. A few problems were immediately apparent after running this service for a few days:

1. My K8S ingress controller was sending http traffic intended for the Matrix server to the Apache server. This didn’t seem to interfere too much with either service, but was not a good state for the network to be in. This could be solved by using www.eom.dev for this page.
2. I only have one port 22 available for git access over ssh, and Gitea is a far superior service over Gitweb.

Even so, I think there were some good ideas in this project. It might be useful to have a homepage at the base url, and I think the simplicity of the discussion board was quite elegant. The source code is available here should I return to this idea later:

www

I still think I’m on to something with my discussion on email as an underrated protocol and the potential benefits of utilizing it over other mediums of communication; however, I am not sure where I am going with any of these ideas. I will most likely continue experimenting with things to see what sticks.

Email: The Original Social Media

SMTP is one of the most significant communications protocols used on the internet today. While HTTP is ubiquitous and probably the first to come to mind for the average person, email is the de facto standard for interpersonal communications online. Of all the services I have hosted on eom.dev, the mailserver has been the most involved to set up; however, it is also the one I use most often. I use this account for just about everything. Most people have an email account, and most insti…

[eric]

Trying Again

The utility of a simple homepage for my domain makes it worth a second attempt at this project. This time, rather than attempting to incorporate several services into one, the webpage is intended only to be a landing page with basic information with links to other services. For this rendition, I decided to use the Landing Page layout from Pure CSS.

Pure

The templates provided by Pure were modified to include custom content and use the Catppuccin color palette.

Catppuccin

Source code will still be hosted on Gitea, and I am looking into setting up GNU Mailman for a future mailing list.