Growth Website Live
The growth website is live now.
Now future monthly learnings should be more complete.
I fixed cloudflare proxy that caused login issues (now wired locally), went live with the new website with new ansible scripts.
Tech
Jonas Growth Website
Started growth.jonasruilong.com as the personal growth hub so I remember what I have done and learned so I dont make the same mistakes again :(
- a timeline of dated snapshots, living threads that deepen over time, plus mission, books, and relationship.
- File-based markdown in git; visibility so some entries stay private or title-only
- Snapshots can open into a thread (or point at an edu note)
- Shared login when viewing protected entries
Achievements:
- Growth site live with the content model in active use
- Snapshots, threads, mission, books, and relationship areas wired together
Jonas Education Website
Continued working on my education website
Achievements:
- Design updates and improvements
- Added more content especially for the ODE/PDE course
Ubuntu Server
Settled on Ubuntu as the production host for the Jonas sites — one server running the apps behind a reverse proxy.
Infra is described as Ansible playbooks so base setup, deploys, and rebuilds stay repeatable when migrating or standing up a new box.
Jonas Website Authentication Service
Started a shared login service for the Jonas sites — one place to sign in, so edu, homepage, and later apps don’t each keep their own accounts.
Apps stay public where they should; private materials stay behind roles decided per app. No passwords stored on the client sites.
Jonas Education Website
Started edu.jonasruilong.com as a personal lecture-notes library — Kanti Wettingen → ETH Zürich → Baruch
- Institution → term → course drill-down; file-based markdown in git
- FastAPI + Jinja2; math-first reading (KaTeX, plots, Mermaid)
- OAuth via shared auth when private materials need role gating
Achievements:
- First version of the education website is live
- Notes for Analysis 1&2, ODE/PDE course is uploaded and supports multiple graphs, formulas etc.
Jonas Homepage
Started jonasruilong.com as the personal hub — story and navigation into other apps.
Explored layout ideas and chose a scroll-driven 2.5D “scroll opera”:
Welcome first, themed worlds as portals, Dock later.
- Astro + React for the interactive front end.
- Thin Python backend to serve the build
Achievements:
- First version of the homepage is live
- Good visual design for the homepage
- 3D render of a Dragon, so learnt a bit of Blender as well
- Cut scene between Welcome and EDU
- Heart for Pau
Microsoft Graph - Microsoft 365 API
Goal:
- Automate Active Directory
- Automate Azure Permissions
- Automate Sharepoint
Redis
It is used for caching, Session Management, Real-time Analytics, Pub/Sub Messaging, Persistent Storage, Scalability
redis-cli to start
By default it is bind to localhost and also protectedmode (clients from other hosts can't connect), (read more about requirepass and ACL for user managment)
Redis should not be public. Better to use it as a storage service for a backend where users can connect
Redis uses binary TCP