The blog has officially been given comment support. While the articles themselves are markdown files in the repository and are pre-rendered to json during the build process, the comments are stored in a database. Authentication is provided by GitHub OAuth.

For the time being, I'm going to have it so that I need to approve comments when they are posted. Hopefully with the GitHub OAuth requirement there won't be too much spam. Guess we shall find out - that was the reason I removed comment support in the first place.

Unfortunately, I no longer have the comments from older vimtips.org articles. Not sure what happened to them. I guess when I turned them off I forgot to back them up. Oh well 😉

When I was making the current version of this blog, there was a lot of discussion on Twitter around improving load times and responsiveness on dynamic websites, complete with lots of demonstrations of instant load times even for things that access the database, like searches. I decided to see what I could pull off with this little site, served from a cheap VPS. I was able to get it to a perfect score on Lighthouse, and indeed, if you click around on the links or use the search box, you will see that things load pretty much instantly.

Do you use distroless? Have you tried to build a distroless docker image for your Go project, only to see an error like /bin/foo: no such file or directory? Maybe you spent a bunch of time trying to figure out why that file isn't there, only to find out that it IS there, but you're still getting the error?

This post is for you!