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Static Site + Blog Infrastructure Plan

Astro + MDX · rsync deploy · Linode · Cloudflare DNS

This document defines a boring, sane, long-lived infrastructure for a content-driven website and blog.

The guiding principle is simple:

Build locally. Inspect everything. Deploy files. Serve static content.

	Things To Do In Kyoto

	Machiya Residence Inn
	https://www.kyoto-machiya-inn.com
	These are old-style Japanese houses, refurbished with modern amenities.. Many of them have tatami mats, a kotatsu (a heated table) in the main sitting room, and wooden bath tubs. But again, it is genuinely old-style—shoes off inside, there’s no central heat, there are paper doors throughout, and they’re very small. In my opinion, these are the best place to stay in Kyoto.

	If you would prefer a hotel rather than a traditional Japanese house, I can recommend the Hotel Granvia. It’s right in Kyoto Station, so you can’t beat the location. The service is excellent. We stayed here many years ago and we were very pleased. Online ratings seem to show that they’ve kept up their standards.

	Fushimi Inari-taisha (伏見稲荷大社). This shrine has an amazing tunnel of torii gates.
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fushimi_Inari-taisha

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	Some people are not going to like that. They’re going to call us names. It’s not going to be a certain company’s vested interest that we do that, but we’re going to take the heat, because we want to make the best product in the world for customers. We’re going to instead focus our energy on these technologies, which we think are in their ascendency, and we think are going to be the right technologies for customers.

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