From cfaceeb9a6d1295f5754be211858155cd309acc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Sanders Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:41:42 -0500 Subject: Added blog post talking about cgit and changes to this site regarding it --- _posts/2025-11-11-thoughts-on-georgia-psc.md | 29 +++++++++++----------------- _posts/2025-11-28-cgit.md | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ _site/blog.html | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) create mode 100644 _posts/2025-11-28-cgit.md diff --git a/_posts/2025-11-11-thoughts-on-georgia-psc.md b/_posts/2025-11-11-thoughts-on-georgia-psc.md index 1b6648f..8a9203c 100644 --- a/_posts/2025-11-11-thoughts-on-georgia-psc.md +++ b/_posts/2025-11-11-thoughts-on-georgia-psc.md @@ -1,26 +1,19 @@ --- layout: post -title: "Thoughts on Georgia PSC" -date: 2025-11-11 -permalink: "/blog/thoughts-on-georgia-psc" +title: "cgit" +date: 2025-11-28 +permalink: "/blog/cgit" author: Benjamin Sanders -catagories: politics,georgia,psc,peter hubbard,alicia johnson -#subtitle: "Blueorgia is real, y'all!" +catagories: cgit --- -As I sit here listening to Phillip Defranco and Alex Pearlman's podcast, which I just discovered, they're talking about the recent -elections we had I've got a few thoughts on it, and it got me thinking. +Since I've moved my website(s) over to a dedicated server I started using I've been meaning to configure my own host for git repos. I ran +into some trouble getting it to work properly but thanks to [Luke Smith's](https://lukesmith.xyz) [landchad.net](https://landchad.net) somebody had written an article how to get a basic one +working. -We had an election last week and it gave me hope for the midterms. Not only did my home state of Georgia elect two Democrats -on to the Public Service Commission for the first time in twenty years but elections across the country progressives and Dems won -their elections with huge margins. +Turns out the main thing I was missing was this line from my nginx site config file `try_files $uri @cgit ;`. The error that fixed was a 403 Forbidden error I kept getting when attempting to visit [git.sanders.life](https://git.sanders.life/). -We still have a year to go until the midterms but I think with some good ground movement to keep this momentum going Democrats can -take back the house and senate. I'm even hopeful us here in Georgia can elect one more person to the PSC or even take the Governor -office. Though before taking anymore state offices I think my main concern is ensuring Jon Ossoff remains a senator and I'm more -pumped to vote for him again after him not caving to Republicans that will take away health care from millions of Americans. +I did use the article to make sure HTTPS cloning would work too though and cloned a couple repos I'm interested in having a mirror. -Going back to the Georgia PSC election I find it interesting that back before the Georgia GOP took control of the state it started -with a PSC election. I'm hoping maybe that will be the same here but for the Democrats! +Now, though, I can freely push my repos to my own server with a read-only frontend to it for other netizens! -I'll end this short post off just bay saying that I have hope for the midterms and have cemented in my mind that elections do matter -and we should vote whenever given the opportunity. \ No newline at end of file +Anyway, thanks for reading this little update to my site and services. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/_posts/2025-11-28-cgit.md b/_posts/2025-11-28-cgit.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1b6648f --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2025-11-28-cgit.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: "Thoughts on Georgia PSC" +date: 2025-11-11 +permalink: "/blog/thoughts-on-georgia-psc" +author: Benjamin Sanders +catagories: politics,georgia,psc,peter hubbard,alicia johnson +#subtitle: "Blueorgia is real, y'all!" +--- +As I sit here listening to Phillip Defranco and Alex Pearlman's podcast, which I just discovered, they're talking about the recent +elections we had I've got a few thoughts on it, and it got me thinking. + +We had an election last week and it gave me hope for the midterms. Not only did my home state of Georgia elect two Democrats +on to the Public Service Commission for the first time in twenty years but elections across the country progressives and Dems won +their elections with huge margins. + +We still have a year to go until the midterms but I think with some good ground movement to keep this momentum going Democrats can +take back the house and senate. I'm even hopeful us here in Georgia can elect one more person to the PSC or even take the Governor +office. Though before taking anymore state offices I think my main concern is ensuring Jon Ossoff remains a senator and I'm more +pumped to vote for him again after him not caving to Republicans that will take away health care from millions of Americans. + +Going back to the Georgia PSC election I find it interesting that back before the Georgia GOP took control of the state it started +with a PSC election. I'm hoping maybe that will be the same here but for the Democrats! + +I'll end this short post off just bay saying that I have hope for the midterms and have cemented in my mind that elections do matter +and we should vote whenever given the opportunity. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/_site/blog.html b/_site/blog.html index a002259..e913236 100644 --- a/_site/blog.html +++ b/_site/blog.html @@ -43,6 +43,9 @@