Solomon Laing
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title: "This Website - inkletblot.com"
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date: 2021-07-15
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lastmod: 2022-06-13
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draft: false
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This website has existed in one for or another for upwards of 10 years at this
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point. It is essentially the catalyst for my love of programming, technology,
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and for my choice of study at university, and my career. When I first created it
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I was in my early teens and it was created using solely HTML and CSS. Since then
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each time I learn of some new technology through uni, on my own steam, or at
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work, I rework the site a little bit. The current design is my favourite so far.
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It's also the most complex.
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I would like to note that I'm not a designer and the purpose of the site was
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never to look pretty but rather to be a playground in which I could experiment
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with ideas and technologies and where I could learn. Although I think it's fair
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to say that over time the visuals have improved somewhat.
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## A little timeline
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- 2009 - sites initial creation, very basic hand rolled static site. Contents is
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a bio and some downloads (probably poorly considered by my teen self) to
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different things I liked.
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- 2010-2014 - site remains largely unchanged, it is re-created early on and has
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downloads removed.
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- 2015 - a forum is created (now removed until further notice) and added to the
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site following a long forgotten tutorial on how to create a PHP based forum.
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Along with this, the knowledge gained from creating the forum is used to
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create a very basic gallery. It was open to the public for uploads and there
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was a global clear button. Very simple comment threads were also used.
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I don't have a simple way of capturing images of the earlier sites, one of
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which I have totally lost, or the php sections of the site.
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- 2018 - a major change occurs. The forum, site, and gallery, are all recreated
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in angularjs and node APIs are built for the forum and gallery. This came from
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a web dev topic I completed at uni. Everything looked pretty similar to the
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previous iteration the implementations were completely new. I hosted the node
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APIs on the Kubernetes cluster I talk about in another post. Their management
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was a pain though for reasons I won't get into here which leads me to...
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- 2020-2021 - the site is rewritten yet again, this time using angular11
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(something I was introduced to through work). The forum and gallery are
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removed from the site and instead a simple blog is added. I will cover the
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simple blog api I have created in another post however you can find it on my
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[gitea](https://git.inkletblot.com/inkletblot/simple-blog-api). I do plan
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on recreating the forum and gallery at some point. However, I think I am going
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to fucus on this little blog for now. I want to add more content and make it a
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bit more feature rich if I can.
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- 2022 - Present. I have re-created the website yet again, this time in using
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[Hugo](https://gohugo.io/). I originally got the idea from Luke Smith but it's
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taken me some time to complete this while working on my final year of uni and
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since I started Hugo has exploded in popularity. The site, including it's
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posts of which there are few so far, are totally static. Thus the largest part
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of the site for the user to download is the font I'm using which I think is
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pretty cool. I indent to continue working on the site and in partuclar the
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content, which I'm hoping to add to semi-regularly.
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- the future - I guess we will see.
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