Since early November, I've been busy with various coding projects - hollowlink.xyz which is a email read receipt service, and this site neetventures.com.

In the past, I would form each web page manually from HTML and CSS, which was a huge time sink that could only be done on a desktop. Now, with v2 of Neet Ventures, everything can be done using a ckeditor markdown to create content more quickly.

The stack I used for this is,

• Ubuntu Server 22.04 on a VPS
• Python 3.10.12
• flask v3
• flask-ckeditor removed in order of Markdown. CkEditor 4’d end of life was met, and the Flask CkEditor project was finicky.
• sqlalchemy>=2
  • Building this site was one of my first times using an ORM with Python. It was rough at the get-go, forming many-to-many relationships with tags, but the end result is a cleaner codebase. Performance doesn’t matter here, really.
• bootstrap-flask
• flask-sqlalchemy
• flask-wtf
• flask_limiter[redis]
• gunicorn

My next task is to backfill this site with all the more significant posts I made on the old site, v1.

As of July 21, 2024, porting Neet Ventures’ v1 posts to v2 is complete.