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This Portfolio took me one year to build

AbdoulK — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 20:39:22 +0000

It can be really impressive to build something in one year but this is not what it is. This website took me one year to build because i didnt have the right tools and enough knowledge to make it work.I needed something perfect and simple for my portfolio.

Here is the website

The Stack

I was going to build my portfolio in Angular since i got some knowledge in it but after i did some manupaltion with a lot of trouble to manipulate the Dom (for Dark mode). I remembered the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) principle and turned back to look around for other options.
It was at that time when i ran into Laravel yeah the one that almost every web developer heard about. I dig into it and it was awesome. I used blade template engine for the front end and installed a package Laravel Voyager which is an awesome admin panel to generate CRUD with BREAD (Browse,Read,Add,Delete) view that help me a lot with implementing Blog feature and backend stuff in general.

The Features

Dark Mode
Blog Feature
Project Feature
Internalization

The Next steps

Add Vue components for some stuff
Include Some Svg animations and a lot of it
Multilanguage with french as my native language and english as foreign (i did it 3 months after release thanks to one of freelancing project that i had done)

I would like to have some insights about it what would you have done different.

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AbdoulK — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 09:37:29 +0000

Two days ago i was really in trouble when i was sending email from my professionnal account it was straight into spams i asked myself why is this happenning? then i headed to my cpanel account and saw that mail.mydomain.com among some of domains didnt have ssl up i was shocked.
Because few days ago i installed free ssls by let's encrypt (thanks to them ) for all my websites and thought i was good at least for three months but truth was i didnt enabled ssl for some of my subdomains and the term that guided me to the solution was Wildcard domain named *.mydomain.com it means basically ssl for everything that end with .mydomain.com eg

mydomain.com
subdomain1.myomain.com
subdomain2.mydomain.com

So i needed something called Certbot to do a task and since i am using windows os to install it there would be time consuming you would tell me Docker but nah with long cli commands no Thanks...
so a linux machine up and running was what i was looking for.

Thats's why I headed to my long time partner AWS and hoped that my free tier didnt end, with a matter of minutes i was running my ubuntu machine and i had installed my tools and did my stuff.
This is why you should have a cloud account no more virtualization nor dual boot in your machine just use one os of your cloud provider and shut it down when you finish to avoid unexpected expense in the future.