Publishing These DevLogs

I spent the vast majority of today getting this blog site up and running. I had all of the "posts" already written up, except for the "Welcome!" one. I was writing the posts for myself because I felt it was weirdly therapeutic and I wanted something that I could look back on at the end of it and see our progress. I've been (and will probably continue) writing them purely from my point of view and highlighting the stuff that I am working on, mainly because they are the parts that I know the best.

After refreshing myself on the tech stack, I tried getting it deployed. Turns out there are some size limits on web deploys for the stack I am running and the images and gifs I had pushed my deploy size up over the limit on the free tier (and is just below the paid tier's limit...). I decided to offload the images into an Azure Blob Storage and redirected the image urls in the posts to point there instead of a relative path. It makes it more of a hassle to add images into the posts but I think using a combination of Obsidian (where I was writing the posts originally) for authoring the posts and staging the images, then moving them over to Azure will work well. Also, I'm sure there is a lot more that I could do to reduce the file sizes, I just feel like I am already spending too much time on the blog already.