There has been a lot of movement behind the scenes.

If you didn't notice, there is a Fediverse link on the website header. For fun, I'm hosting a slew of federated applications to help promote a less monopolistic web. Because of my lack of social media, this website and the social platforms below are the extent to which you'll find me online.

Here's a quick list of what they are:

• bsky.app - On bsky.app, I host my own Personal Data Server, so you'll see my handle as @mark@80px.org. If anyone wants an 80px.org bsky.app handle, let me know!
• x.80px.com - This is a twitter clone. For simplicity I used the subdomain x, but this is the software Mastodon
• pics.80px.com - This is an instagram clone. The software is called Pixelfed
• music.80px.com - This is for music, kind of like a soundcloud clone. The software used is called Funkwhale
• chat.80px.com - This is Matrix chat, which is a federated chat. The software is matrix-synapse and element for the web ui
• links.80px.com - This is basically a reddit clone. The software is called Lemmy 🤘
• videos.80px.com - This is a youtube clone. The software is called Peertube

Oh, one other thing! A few years back I wanted to try my hand at exploring various programming languages, and getting testing set up as a first principle for projects within them. The Programming Templates page shows the projects I've made. Those are in a public group within the gitlab.

And that's that. Anyone is welcome to create an account on any of these federated platforms. If you do, send me a message and say hello! You are also free to pull the code for any of the programming templates and use for whatever you like. I tried my best to give attribution from the languages I needed to learn basic project testing and architecture for.

I self-host a gitlab server so I have a safe space for all my coding projects. Within that infrastructure, I have a gitlab-runner that can help me run jobs. It helps if I need to build and add something to gitlab pages, or if I use the Autodevops feature to fully deploy an app to a kubernetes cluster. Usually the latter workflow has a few steps, like building, testing, dependency scanning, deploying, etc. So each one of the runs adds around 8 jobs or so. I eventually set up renovate, so a lot of the job numbers are coming from automated updates as well.

Either way, I hit job 30,000 this morning! It was for a public build of 80px.com, so anyone can go see it.

https://code.80px.com/80px/80px.com/80px.com/-/jobs/30000

It's not a major milestone, just one that pleasingly ends in all 0's.

I started self-hosting gitlab in about 2018. I believe the version I started with was version 11. There have been a lot of changes since then! They are about to release version 17 next month.

Gitlab has made my life so much easier. When I started self hosting in 2018, I knew I was going to be burning a little bit of money as I figured out my optimal setup. There are 0 regrest. Using Gitlab's free software, I have utilized almost every feature they offer. I know more about building docker images, pushing and pulling them to a registry, using autodevops to use the registry to deploy apps within kubernetes using a loadbalancer, and automating certificates with lets encrypt. Admittedly kubernetes is overkill for a lot of things, but when you get in the habit of making your apps work in containers and certificate generation and loadbalancing is a non-issue, it's hard to look back. So big thanks to gitlab for being open source!

Howdy! This is the first post. In the future, all updates to projects will go right through this main channel. Stay tuned, and thanks for visiting.