My first post from Obsidian Directly
So from a couple of days ago and until to now i have been having a blog done in Wordpress, since like 2005. Used some times, and some times not over the years. Used for Tech and Photos and life. Many years it was hosted at wordpress, then a couple of years ago i got tired of too little diskspace, so i selfhosted it at home in my home lab, running an LXC in ProxMox. It has been rock stable, never had an issue.
But after 20 years of doing the same platform i needed to try something new. Plus i had some alone time for myself in the easter Holliday here in Denmark, and had time for a project.
I have been thinking about this for some time, and what i ended up with, is definitely over engineered but fun !.
Both at work and at home we use a lot of markdown. And i use Obsidian a lot for both work and personal life, which is build on markdown as the center piece. So this is the setup i came up with
- I wanted Obsidian as the Editor
- I wanted all my files and pictures to live in Github, so i can easily spin up a new site
- I wanted a static site with pure HTML (Ended with Pelican, that could also import my existing post and images with a little AI help)
- I wanted the site to still run on my ProxMox on my docker host
- I want to expose it using nginx(Might need something else there soon) & cloudflare tunnel
- I wanted a Github Pipeline that would push posts from Obsidian to Github and on to my local system when ever a new post arrive
Took a day or two to make, with a lot of AI Help from Github CoPilot, and learned a lot, and that was the main intention. The website is static files, that is easy to move, automate whatever i want to do in the future.