Hi, I'm Jake, a software engineer currently working for a company in Brighton. I've been working as a developer since mid-2015, and have been studying IT and computer science since 2013. I work primarily as a full-stack developer, however more recently I've been working more on mobile apps.
My website is the culmination of all my knowledge, compiled into 1 place. It not only contains all my projects, but it in itself is a project. Making sure this website works properly is a tall order, especially considering it's self hosted.
The site is primarily powered by Pelican, a static site generator. This converts markdown and HTML templates into static HTML files. The templates are generated using Jinja2, a templating language similar to Django's. This allows me to write nice clean, DRY content, and have it come out as clean HTML.
The static content (JS, CSS etc) is built using a custom build pipeline. The Javascript is built and compiled using Babel and Browserify, and the CSS is written using node-SCSS as a pre-processor.
The website is hosted on my UK VPS. Previous versions have been hosted on 1&1 and MyWindowsHosting.
The static files are served using a custom Express server, which allows me to auto-deploy the site from my CI. This is then served using a custom, closed-source reverse proxy, which makes local development and domain switching much easier. This is pointed to by NGINX, which actually serves port 80.