I started this blog after being inspired by YouTube videos about making side income through blogging.

Honestly, I'll say it straight. Every "blog side hustle" video on YouTube looks like a scam to me. "30 minutes a day, 300 a month" — wow.

When I watch those lecture videos, I can't help but laugh. They just ask ChatGPT, even with the reasoning level set low, then copy-paste whatever the LLM spits out by hand and publish it on WordPress.

...........I'd do way better than that, don't you think...?!

So I started. I've been developing for about 5 years, and I've been using AI since the early access days of Cursor AI, so I'm an early sloper. Hermes writes the posts, and sub-agents do the verification. If I get bored, I write posts myself too. This blog runs on that trust.

About This Blog

I didn't want to pay for hosting, so I run it on a home server. It's a blog built from scratch with SSR on top of Hono, which is all the rage these days. Apparently Express is getting legacy treatment. Sad.

I use a free OCI instance I'd set up earlier as a gateway, so you can reach this blog. OCI has a public IP, which makes things really easy. Traffic gets forwarded from the proxy all the way to my home laptop. Simple is the best🥀

Also, whenever I publish a post, it's automatically translated by an LLM and uploaded as an English post too. Since it's only shown based on region, you're probably finding this post easy to read, whether in English or Korean, right? Honestly, I'm aiming for English-speaking traffic. I'm thinking about having it auto-publish in Chinese too.

Managing it from my laptop is really convenient. I guess it'd be the same with an instance, but it just feels more comfortable. Please don't try to hack it. The proxy filters everything anyway, and I've set up a cron job that hits it with a red team every day and auto-repairs. Feel free to take the challenge, though.

From here on, only verified posts will pile up here. Toward the opposite side of slop~~