Raw Development Log: Getting Started

Original stream-of-consciousness development notes, tidied just enough to be readable.

This is the diary from day one: me, a new server, and a suspicious amount of enthusiasm.

First task was coaxing Caddy to serve anything at all. Cloudflare proxy didn't work until I remembered the ancient ritual called “restart the server.”

Latency check: changes propagate through the proxy almost instantly. Confidence level: modest.

I asked an LLM for a responsive column width, because apparently that's how we write CSS now.

.readable-column {
  max-width: 70ch;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 0 1rem;
}

Transferred the album site with git because scp'ing hundreds of audio files is a special form of masochism.

Dark mode was set as default because my eyes asked nicely. The service worker eventually cooperated after I remembered to copy the file that makes it work.

There were some browser quirks, cast button bugs, and a mysterious period where audio refused to play. Eventually it all settled down—possibly out of pity.