The shallow answer is a social media platform written in PHP using the Symfony framework. It’s hosted using the Google Cloud Platform in a single VM instance. The production database is MariaDB.
But that still leaves the question of why it exists.
I made it with the intent of having a place to publish my music reviews and allow other people to publish whatever else they wanted to write. By far I’m the most active on my Instagram which isn’t convenient for posting large blocks of text but by having Opium.…
Just got this thing set up. I’m not going to lie it was kinda a pain in the ass. That’s mostly my fault though because of how I approached things. I saw this theme and I really liked it so I wanted to use it. The only problem was that my only experience with GitHub pages was from years ago and I didn’t really like it. Revisiting it after so long was… jarring, to say the least, and adjusting to new deploy tools like Hugo was surely something.…