rustual-boy-www

A basic landing page/blog for Rustual Boy.

running locally

1. Update/install dependencies by running: npm install from the repo directory (safe to only do this once per pull)
2. Run the site: node app

The site will be available on localhost:3000. To use another port, you can specify a just-in-time environment variable like so: httpPort=[port] node app.

running in deployment

Start the site: sudo httpPort=80 useHttps=true pm2 start app.js

Note that pm2 is used to spawn the app in a separate process so that the ssh terminal isn't blocked while it's running. To monitor the process, use sudo pm2 list. It can be restarted using sudo pm2 restart app, and if absolutely necessary, all node processes can be killed using sudo pm2 kill.

blog

The blog is built with poet, which means a couple things:

• Posts are stored as .md files in the posts/ directory. We've configured poet to watch the posts dir, but its watcher isn't recursive by default, so we can't use subdirectories. Therefore, all posts follow a simple naming convention: category-number-postname.md. This way they can stay cleanly organized within this single folder.
• Post slugs are generated using the title of the post, so these can't be changed without also invalidating the post url.
• Post dates use the nonintuitive American format (M-D-Y)

demo reel

Just in case I lose them later, here's the encoding settings used for the demo reel video:

ffmpeg.exe -i reel.mkv -c:v libvpx -qmin 0 -qmax 50 -crf 5 -b:v 1M -an -r 25 reel.webm

ffmpeg.exe -i reel.mkv -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -profile:v baseline -b:v 600k -pass 1 -level 3 -movflags +faststart -an -r 25 -f mp4 /dev/null && \
ffmpeg.exe -i reel.mkv -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -profile:v baseline -b:v 600k -pass 2 -level 3 -movflags +faststart -an -r 25 reel.mp4

license

MIT (see LICENSE)