Introducing mcvb.eu

Over the last couple of years, I’ve had multiple I should write about this thoughts. But I never did, because I didn’t have the infrastructure for it. And writing on LinkedIn, on someone else’s social media platform, just didn’t feel right either.

Now I can finally write! On my own little corner of the internet. My own space about me, and things I’d like to write about.

What I wanted

Just something easy. No fancy animations, videos. No big images. Just simple texts that I can write, and share. No fancy JavaScript, no trackers, no cookies, and European. With RSS support for my blogs, though.

Oh. One exception. The homepage. I love the rotating header expressing different meanings for the abbreviation MCVB.

How I built it

There are hundreds of CMS options out there. WordPress being the worst option (in my humble opinion). But with those hundreds of options, what will you use?

Before this, I had a simple HTML page I made myself, hosted through GitHub Pages. But we can do better! Especially since GitHub is no longer my preferred online git option. More about that later.

So to be honest: I just stole what a friend of mine did. Antoine. He is a genius when it comes to European infrastructure. So I just copied his astro setup, built it on the European Git hosting alternative Pushin and also changed my DNS supplier from Cloudflare to Bunny.net.

The last piece of the puzzle is Deploybase. It takes my git repo to both build and host the website for me.

Can I quickly mention the customer services of Deploybase and Bunny.net is great?
I have no referrals or sponsorships with them. They were just, that good.

Final notes

I have no idea what will become of this website. It might turn into a full blown hobby gallery. Or I might decide that I actually like writing out my thoughts some more. Perhaps, it’ll become more of a professional showcase on the things that I can do.

For now. I also claimed my own little corner of the internet.