Mid 2019 I have started contributing photos that I took to Unsplash. Unsplash is my main goto resource to spice up presentations, documents and talks. I even use it as a resource to put sample photos into the applications I build (when not using picsum.photos or placekitten). Over the years, I have used hundreds of photos that individual photographers all over the world have made, edited and contributed to the ever-growing Unsplash library.

Previously, I ran my website with a PHP-based CMS on a shared host and since quite some time I wanted to port it to a static site generator and serve it off of AWS S3. Finally, I found the time to do it. This post summarizes what and why I did my website as it is now, and what process and tools I used to achieve it. Setting the Goal With my old website running on Kirby CMS for years I had to maintain a shared host that runs it, and have Cloudflare setup to have improved loading times.