https://loogs.dev/2026-08-18T12:00:00+03:00Data, systems, and the occasional teardown2026-08-18T12:00:00+03:002026-08-18T12:00:00+03:00Benson Olugatag:loogs.dev,2026-08-18:/articles/welcome-to-loogs-dev/

<p>The first post on this site, and a quick note on how it's built and served — Pelican, nginx, and Cloudflare Tunnel, no exposed ports.</p>

<p class="placeholder">TODO: this is a dummy sample article. Replace the content and the hero image before publishing for real.</p> <p>This is the first article on loogs.dev — mostly here to prove the pipeline works end to end: Markdown in, static HTML out, served from a homelab box with no inbound ports open on the router.</p> <h2>How this site is served</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Build:</strong> <a href="https://getpelican.com/">Pelican</a>, a Python static site generator — Markdown content, Jinja2 templates, no database.</li> <li><strong>Reverse proxy:</strong> nginx, serving the built static files.</li> <li><strong>Public access:</strong> Cloudflare Tunnel — outbound-only connection from the homelab box to Cloudflare's edge, so nothing listens for inbound traffic locally.</li> <li><strong>TLS:</strong> terminated at Cloudflare's edge automatically; the tunnel connection itself is already encrypted.</li> </ul> <h2>Inline images work like this</h2> <p>Images referenced from an article live under <code>content/images/articles/</code> and are linked with Pelican's <code>{static}</code> syntax so URLs resolve correctly regardless of where the page ends up:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code>![<span class="nt">Alt text</span>](<span class="na">{static}/images/articles/some-photo.jpg</span>) </code></pre></div> <p>Here's the placeholder used as this article's featured image, inline as a regular figure too:</p> <p><img alt="Placeholder image" src="https://loogs.dev/images/articles/welcome-hero.jpg"></p> <p>More real write-ups — the Cloudflare Tunnel setup, the CVM pipeline work, the homelab build — will follow.</p>