This site has been neglected. Time to rethink…

I’m thinking about starting a Docusaurus site for the blog and a new documentation section of rpayne.dev. I found a Docusaurus template on Vercel and liked it a lot so I’m going to give it a try. Vercel has a free tier based on usage limits and I can’t see me ever going over the free limits, so this seems like a good place to start. They also let you connect your domain to the web app for free by using DNS verification. The default URL Vercel gave me was https://docs-eosin-two.vercel.app (gross). I decided to use the docs.rpayne.dev subdomain because honestly I think it will be mostly docs with a tiny side of blog. Just look at my 6 blog posts in 5 years for evidence of that.

Vercel asked for permission to read my Github repos and deployed the Docusaurus template to a repo of my choosing. The flow seems to be:

1. Clone the repo locally
2. Install dependencies with yarn install
3. Start the server and make changes with live updates (nice)
4. Commit and push to Github
5. Changes are automagically deployed to Vercel

I’m not sure how to update packages and dependencies, so that will be the messy part of trying to use this template.

Eventually, I’ll have to figure out how to migrate the existing blog posts over (all 6 of them). The main reason I wanted to start a site was so I can have a searchable library for all the quick and dirty scripts I’ve written. It feels like I never really got started because I couldn’t figure out a simple and fast way to do it. WordPress is a much more complex tool than I need. Docusaurus uses Markdown to create pages, so it will be a lot simpler formatting docs and code.

Part of me wants to keep using the base domain for both docs and blog (https://rpayne.dev/docs and https://rpayne.dev/blog). If I do that, then I may move the current https://rpayne.dev/projects section to https://apps.rpayne.dev so I can keep larger projects separate from the docs and blog site. We’ll see where it all ends up.

World of Warcraft (again)

After playing World of Warcraft Classic from mid-TBC through the end of Wrath, I found a huge surprise in Season of Discovery. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy a vanilla WoW “expansion” as much as I did. The revamped abilities and dungeons in the vanilla style made SoD very unique. I found a bunch of new friends in the guild <The Scarlet Crusade>. There was some drama but we all ended up leaving the guild and forming a new guild called <SoD The Long Way>. The Scarlet Enclave raid was a great capstone on what may be the best version of WoW I’ve ever played.

After Blizzard announced the end of SoD (prematurely in my opinion), <SoD The Long Way> made the decision to move to Grobbulus to play Mists of Pandaria and create a guild named <MoP The Long Way>. Mists was the expansion that killed my interest in WoW in 2012, and I’m already starting to feel the same way which makes me sad. At least this time I have more WoW Classic to fall back to. I’ve leveled a character on the 20th Anniversary Nightslayer realm to 34 and counting. Pre-Cataclysm so much more enjoyable to me as an RPG than “modern” WoW. Cataclysm onward just feels like a lobby game like Call of Duty where you AFK in 20-minute queues waiting to play the game for 15 minutes.

I want to stay with the friends I made in SoD, but I also don’t want to force myself to play Mists… We’ll see.

Markdown testing

I’ve never noticed that WordPress has a Markdown section before. Really glad I found this after getting Docusaurus semi-ready… 🙄

#!/bin/bash
echo "Hello World!"