# About this site

Slush.systems is a blog that’s mostly about building this blog. It’s also about running Arch Linux on a Thinkpad X1 Yoga, and using time series metrics. It is authored by Eric Jacobs.

This site is built with Hugo, served by Caddy, and hosted at Fly.io. You can find the sources for this blog including the theme at github.com/jetpks/slush.systems.

The theme is a heavily modified version of panr’s hugo-terminal-theme. The color scheme is tomorrow-night. The font is Cartograph by Connary Fagen. I love this font. Please purchase a license from Connary Fagen if you’re gonna use it.

# Multi-region presence with anycast

commit	78eab30
author	eric jacobs
updated	2024-05-11T23:18:33-06:00
meta	/about — #anycast #multi-region #http #fly.io #hosting

tl;dr: This blog is coming to you live from servers in California, Virginia, and Paris. Your requests are automatically routed to whichever datacenter is closer to you in order to get you these pages as fast as possible. Here’s how it’s done.

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# Neovim Markdown Frontmatter Syntax Highlighting

commit	a0ea302
author	eric jacobs
updated	2023-03-17T08:20:29-06:00
meta	/about — #neovim #syntax #yaml #toml #frontmatter

tl;dr: Neovim syntax highlighting for yaml & toml frontmatter in markdown files

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# All systems go for Caddy

commit	edd4c88
author	eric jacobs
updated	2023-03-11T21:16:33-07:00
meta	/about — #caddy #http #metrics #prometheus #security

tl;dr: I’m using Caddy to serve this blog. Running Caddy with metrics and without exposing the admin interface was less straightforward than I was expecting, but here’s how it’s done.

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# Brace expansion is pretty neat

commit	e6fac89
author	eric jacobs
updated	2023-03-12T16:47:59-06:00
meta	/about — #fish #shell #tooling

tl;dr: Exploring the magic of brace expansion in the shell.

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