Random thoughts

I was digging a bit deeper into hugo and posibility to have headless CMS’es for a lot of things. Funny is that some parts are already built.

• I discovered that i can create a (static) site that stores all of my & family recipes and displays them very fast on both desktop / mobile. Without having to setup a database / keep the packages up to day / look over the shoulder for bad actors that will try to compromise the server and so on. Long story short … it’s easyier to maintain. It’s easier to move to a different provider. Hell, i can even host it on an arduino cheap clone that is solar powered if i want. ( https://github.com/deranjer/hugo-cookbook ). And it scales. I can rent as many cheap hosting vm’s put them behind a load balancer and serve milions of connections without worrying that it might get saturated ( or unavailable ).

• On the e-commerce side of things … it’s more complicated and tricky and i don’t have (yet) a definitive answer. Normal website can be created. Custom e-commerce themes exists or can be decently easy created. Products stored in .md files. Automated workflows can be created (similar to what i did for this blog). However you need more than a static page. You need people to be able to add buy things. That means:

  • a cart
  • payment methods (supported in your country)
  • probably some integrations with some abandoned cart management
  • integration with some sort of ERP
  • discounts management
  • customer support
  • recommendation engine
  • integration with different mandatory goverment procedures like e-factura for Romania
  • and the list goes on and on
  • analytics

• I did advanced a bit with the esp32 servo controller experiment. made the usb comms working (again)

• The lego clone box arrived today and already had some fun fast building a monster track with my daughter. See the post picture ?