This site took me 8 years to actually build and deploy (in 2023), lol.
I bought the chunter.me domain name back in 2015 for a couple reasons:
- I wanted to start learning about hosting a website and you don’t own the physical server, as all my experience was from work having our own servers and fully controlling IIS.
- Would be able to play around with Sub domains allowing me to hopefully deploy some of my personal projects (that did happen)
- I wanted to create a personal website (haha… at least I eventually did)
- And I just through it would be super cool to own my own domain that represented me personally.
So what have I made chunter.me into?
At it’s core, it’s the everything about me (Christopher Hunter) website which publicly includes:
- About Me (about, resume details, resources, presentations, groups/volunteering)
- Blog
- Project Portfolio
- Simplify Aptify
On the private side:
- Personal Journal application because I couldn’t find one I liked, haha.
- Code Snippet repo w/sharing ability
- I was using Gists but wanted something I had more control over and thought it would be a fun little project.
- A simple CMS/Task Manger for articles, video’s to create.
Anime Images
You might have noticed that all the main cover and banner images are Anime. I am a huge Anime Junkie and I as it is such a big part of my life I wanted to play into it. All the images are free Anime Wallpapers I’ve found throughout the years, and I do actually rotate all of them as my computers desktop wall papers. I am trying to be contextual to the images I pick, so there is reasoning behind each.
For example, this page and the about page, features Tsunayoshi Sawada from Katekyo Hitman Reborn! as the Hero image. One of my all time favorite anime and Sawada is one of my favorite characters:
Tsuna is set to become the tenth generation boss of the Vongola family. In school, Tsuna has been given the harsh nickname of “No Good Tsuna,” as he is very clumsy, gets low marks in school and is somewhat of a pushover. Although he is the tenth generation Vongola boss, Tsuna is unwilling to take part in anything that has to do with the Mafia. He always denies the fact that he is a future Mafia boss and tries to avoid anyone involved with the Mafia. In the Future arc he states that he would rather destroy the Vongola family than accept its bloody history. Tsuna is often surprised and horrified (for a comedic effect) at Reborn’s and other mafiosos’ actions. Later, even though he still wants nothing to do with the Mafia, he is grateful for the friends he has made since meeting Reborn. He cares a lot for his new “family” and would put himself in the way of danger in order to protect them. Excerpt from: MyAnimeList
Infrastructure
Note: whole site is still under construction
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Hosting: Azure Static Web App
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Client: Nuxt 3 SSG
- Packages: Nuxt UI, Nuxt Content, Nuxt Image, FontSource, Tailwind, Iconify - FontAwesome
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API: Azure C# .Net 6 Function
- Integration: GitHub - Used to pull issues and display them on projects
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Images: Cloudinary