Hello, world

Welcome to the new home of blakeridgway.com. This site is now built with Rust and Axum, served as a single, self-contained binary.

Why the rewrite?

The previous version leaned on a heavier frontend stack. The new one keeps things fast, boring, and easy to operate:

• Server-rendered HTML via Askama templates.
• Markdown posts rendered with pulldown-cmark.
• Static assets served directly by the web server.
• Content loaded from plain JSON and Markdown files at startup.

What's next

I'll use this space to write about infrastructure, automation, and the occasional long bike ride. Expect posts on:

• GitOps workflows and policy-as-code
• Observability and SRE practice
• Home lab builds and hardware
• Endurance cycling analytics

Fast, reliable, and typed — just how I like my systems.

Thanks for stopping by.