What is it?
lambdacreate is the engine behind this website. It's a hand-built web application written in Lua using the Lapis framework on top of OpenResty. It handles blog posts, podcast hosting, a paste service, project showcases, and RSS feed generation.
The site has been my ongoing project for about six years, evolving from a simple blog into a full-featured personal platform. Blog posts and project descriptions are written in Markdown with YAML front matter, templates use etlua, and the whole thing runs self-hosted on a dedicated Kimsufi server.
It admittedly feels a little odd to mention this, but in all of the self reflection that lead to the opensource pages, I realized this has been one of my longest running projects. And it grew from this little idea that perhaps I could build a website, and find something interesting to talk about once in a while. And here I am years later with what is something I associate as a large component of my digital identity. It's pretty cool from that perspective, even if the code base is a constant hot mess.