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Arthur Sommer

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Why This Site Is Moving Home

Replacing a forgotten cloud-hosted page with a site that represents what I build now.

mtime 2026-08-15 · 1 min read

For years, arthursommer.com was a small static page sitting behind AWS CloudFront. It worked, in the narrow sense that it continued returning HTML, but it stopped representing me or the work I was doing.

The replacement is deliberately simple. Hugo turns Markdown into static files. Caddy serves them. The source and deployment process live with the rest of my infrastructure documentation. There is no database, application runtime, tracking script, or client-side framework to maintain.

The visual design borrows from amber terminals and early websites: one column, obvious links, plain text, and just enough structure to find your way around. Underneath, the HTML remains responsive, semantic, and accessible.

More importantly, this gives me a public notebook for the projects that otherwise end up scattered across configuration files and private worklogs. Expect Caddy modules, storage experiments, incident reports, and guides for people who want to start self-hosting without immediately buying a rack.