Clearing out the cobwebs
Nov 12, 2025
Out with the old. When this post is published, it will mark the end of a chapter for burden.cc. One where production was a git pull origin master directly on a DigitalOcean droplet.
In with the new. Today, I have the CDN itch. It’s actually been on the task list since 2020 and it’s really about shouldering the hosting and administrative burden onto someone else, since hosting a static site from a VPS feels like playing with fire.
So let’s fix that. Github Pages is going to scratch the CDN itch.
Here’s the rub. I’m already using Github Pages for a stage.
Netlify offers some interesting solutions for branch deploys, so I’m going to give them a shot. I have it setup so that when I push to the staging branch, I get a deploy. Also when I push to branches prefixed with wip-.
tl;dr
Removed: Travis CI, and Bower
Added: Netlify, Yarn
You won’t, but stay tuned for more updates. I don’t like the way Netlify is currently configured to deploy, and I would love to get some checks in place.
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