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Hosting a .NET Core 2 app on Ubuntu

A few months ago I'd started a fun side-project of moving my personal web apps from various Windows-based services to a single Ubuntu VM because of the release of Ghost 1.

Making Gitea start automatically with systemd

I managed to deploy my Gitea service, but had difficulties getting it to start automatically on system startup. (Oh, I really miss Windows Scheduler.) I stumbled upon an article explaining how to define a simple systemd unit. I attempted to write one, and it worked! Here is what I came up with:

Switching to Firefox Quantum

I'd found news of Firefox Quantum yesterday morning during my commute. News items about how some browser is getting so much better aren't exactly rare, but these changes seemed

Running a git repo site on nginx on Ubuntu

Last time around [https://zblesk.net/blog/ghost-learning-nginx-on-ubuntu/] I wrote about migrating my webs to an Ubuntu VM. One of the few things that were left to migrate was my private git repo

Ghost: making me learn nginx on Ubuntu

So the time finally came: Ghost 1.0 [https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/1.0.0] is out. My setup is a little more complex than the vanilla one: on this