Post #2289271

2026-04-09 19:53 UTC

@la@horny.jetzt I have no idea what a tech-stack is! I have YouTube tutorials and dogged determination to thank for the building of my website. And I'm stupidly proud of having done it by myself! Glad you have what you do, though apart from the girlfriend part, I do not know what it means :) Sounds like you have an idea where to start though, which is lovely!

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@la@horny.jetzt 2026-04-09 20:30

@GoingDownWithSundial@mastodon.social A lot of tech is based on other tech, so that's called a tech stack, since it builds on each other. For example (and you don't need to understand what all this means to understand the concept of a Tech-Stack): I run my own server, where I manage my operating system (I use arch linux btw), on top of that "containers" using docker, running the seperate services, among them nginx, which redirects traffic to the right webserver (which runs in it's own container), and that webserver serves a website, which was generated using a static site generator (eleventy) so my tech-stack (or the part I manage) looks like eleventy (generating the page) some generic minimal web server nginx docker arch-linux Things I don't manage are below that like: My home network is managed by my cohabitant The Authorative DNS server I use ( @dns@donotsta.re ) The Internet connection is managed by my ISP including bgp routing and all that shit The firmware on my mac mini is proprietary by apple the hardware could be seperated into a thousand things I don't control and so on.... Those are all part of "the tech-stack" and if you're google or amazon or someone like that you wanna know everything about all of it If you're a blogger you really wanna just deal with the site generator. And silly me has a weird (but shared among many of my friends) desire to know all of it despite not needing to.

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