Ergophobia — week of 2026-08-24

The site no longer runs on Cloudflare Workers. It’s served from huginn, a Hetzner VPS I already keep around for mail, with Caddy out front. The deploy is pull-based rather than pushed: huginn fetches origin/main, resets its own checkout to it, builds the site with Hugo, runs Pagefind over the output, and rsyncs the result into place. From my laptop the whole thing is one ssh call in scripts/deploy.sh. Owning the box means the build and the origin are the same machine, which is simpler to reason about than a hosted pipeline I can only watch from outside.

The contact form moved with it. It used to be a Worker; now it’s a small Bun service on the same host. Hugo renders the page, the Bun process handles the POST, rate-limits by IP, and hands the message to local sendmail, then redirects back to the form with a status.

I also wrote the new rule into AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md, because the old habit is now wrong: pushing to main isn’t a publish anymore, and someone has to run the deploy afterward.