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This Site
This site is a small project I worked on over the course of a few weeks while first returning back to university during my second year. Its hosted on a small lighttpd server running on an old laptop from around 2003. I wrote a small C++ program that takes in MarkDown files and builds them into webpages. Everytime the server turns on it pulls from a repo, builds the code and runs it, this then builds the website and puts them in a folder for lighttpd to host.
The thoughts behind this
During my first year at university I read a lot around the concept of Permacomputing. This is a set of ideas around reusing old computers and writing small systems that avoid code rot and use as little power as possible. The driving idea behind this being that we've had computers that are powerful enough for most small jobs for quite a long time and realistically a lot of old e-waste is still perfectly good for these kind of small low-risk jobs and can be used in an eco-friendly way when worked with correctly.
I'd been reading into Permacomputing for a decent while but never properly had the chance to experiment with my thoughts on it. Along with that I'd also spent time doing a module in my first year on the history of the internet and found the www's origins really inspiring