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Static Sites and Images

Adding images to posts is an…interesting process. It’s not as smooth as drag-and-drop of a rich text editor experience is, you have to manually insert an explicit link to your image within your Markdown. It’s not terrible, but not amazing either.

You also have to add the photo to you Git-tracked site repository, hopefully you have one big folder called “media” inside your static folder so you don’t have to worry about exact URL paths of sub-folders. And now there’s a large blob in your Git tree.

I have switched to doing something else: hosting images on Cloudflare’s R2 object storage. Unfortunately, they are rather annoying about how you use custom domain for buckets.

So I’ve bought the joodaloop.ing domain, and am using cdn.joodaloop.ing as a subdomain for media hosting.