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+# A website
+This is my personal website, feel free to steal the server and look at the code if there's anything useful there.
+There's not much to it, but it currently:
+- uses `blackfriday`/`github_flavored_markdown` to convert markdown into HTML
+- has a `.service` file that lets it run automatically on startup
+- daemonizes itself using `go-daemon` so you get nice log and pid files
+- has a set of `iptables-persistent` rules to avoid needing to run as root
+
+TODOs
+- make a cronjob to automatically renew the certificate
+- add a header bar and make the footer look a little nicer
+- do cool stuff so I can post about it here I guess