one gig of ram is a lifestyle

people keep renting 16gb machines to serve a landing page with three paragraphs and a cookie banner. meanwhile this entire site — turntable, crate, receipts, both languages — builds to a folder of files and gets served by nginx using less memory than your browser spends rendering this sentence.

the stack, in full:

markdown -> html -> nginx -> you

no runtime. no database. no container orchestration for a personal site, which i maintain is a war crime. when i post, i write a text file and rsync it. that’s the whole pipeline. the ci/cd is me.

the server has one gigabyte of ram and honestly it’s overkill. half of it is just vibes and page cache.

anyway the real reason this post exists is to test the receipt printer. looks like it works.