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Excellent - that site is nice and basic. A good first project.
Seek out some resources on HTML, CSS, basic Linux command line and nginx and start playing around. If you’re on a Mac you can do all this locally then rent a small VPS from digital ocean or the like for about $5/mo to host everything on the web when you’re ready. I can’t speak to options on windows.
On your last comment it looks scary but if we break it down it’s not bad at all.
while true ; do
Programs are (super) basically made up of if “this” then do “this stuff”, and while “this thing” do “some stuff”. While true means run this next bit of code (untildone
) forever.nc -l -p 80 -c
nc is a program (netcat) that reads/writes data to a network. - in Linux denote options for the program. These are saying listen, listen on port 80, and run a command.
‘echo -e “HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n\n $(date)”’;
The command netcat will run. This is HTTP protocol magicness and
$(date)
is a Linux command that prints the date.done
Ends the loopEz pz.
If you have a Mac you can probably run this in terminal and check out what it does (do take care in running commands from the internet tho).
Thanks for the explanation! Once you give everything a meaning it's just another language I guess lol
I'm not on a Mac, but I do have a PC running Ubuntu so maybe that works too (?)
I'll be looking for those resources you listed this week since we have some days off and see what I can come up with. With that and all the other suggestions I think I'm ready to do some stuff, build some break some and see how it goes haha
Thanks again!
Oh yes! Even better. People having Linux machines just hanging around is rare so I didn’t even consider it.
I did a little looking and found instructions for hosting a matrix server here:
https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/latest/setup/installation.html
Once you get a bit comfortable on the command line give this a try!
When I was a kid I was really into computers, so I met Linux back then. Nowadays, I just use it when I'm fed up with Windows or if I need to get work done since it's distraction free and workspaces and hot corners make my life so much easier when working with multiple documents :)
Saved the website for later on!