GitHub Actions

During the process of building this personal website, I’ve always faced a dilemma: I want to record and create in my most familiar and heartfelt native language (Traditional Chinese), but at the same time, I also aspire to connect with the world, allowing more English native speakers or international readers interested in my technical articles to discover the potential of this content. Furthermore, from a technical blog management perspective, bilingual content significantly aids search engine optimization (SEO), bringing a wider range of organic traffic to the website. ...

Why I wanted to do this There’s a common misconception about static websites, which is that “static” means dead and unchangeable. But when combined with CI/CD, they can achieve things many people wouldn’t expect. I wanted to do one thing: to automatically update a certain field on this website every week, without me having to manually write anything. My motivations were twofold: The first was purely to test how far static deployments like GitHub Pages can go with automation. From data scraping, calling LLMs, to finally committing to the repo to trigger deployment, the entire chain can be completed within GitHub Actions, without any backend servers. This in itself is very interesting. ...