Introduction

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Hello there 👋

My name is Darren and this is my blog. This is a new blog about my interests, which are Linux, Cybersecurity, Distributed Systems Architecture and Music.

I also like reading and technically enjoy writing but it really inflames my imposter syndrome.

This blog is built using Hugo, GitLab and Cloudflare… for now :D

The first few posts will likely be disjointed and arbitrary. I’m using this as a way to force myself to learn some new things are write about them. Like Mermaid diagrams.

Here is a very basic one describing how deployment of this site works.

flowchart LR A[fa:fa-laptop Gitlab Project] -->|main commit| B(fa:fa-ship GitLab CI) B --> C{fa:fa-check Build Pass} C --> D[fa:fa-server Live Site] C --> E[fa:fa-pencil-square Drafts Site]

Something to figure out from above, the Mermaid Live Editor seems to support Font Awesome icon annotations in the objects, but this is isn’t working in Hugo. I assume because the embedded mermaid dependency in the Poison theme needs to be updated.

Resources

The following articles helped me get this blog up and running