// how heysam.org works

About this site

A small site, built the way I like to build bigger ones: compiled, boring to run and inexpensive.

Right now

$ heysam status

version   v2.1.0 (95b7320)
built     2026-11-01 04:42 UTC
uptime    1m 26s
memory    25.5 MB of 209.9 MB (peak 25.5 MB)
binary    21.3 MB
region    dfw (Dallas)
machine   28709d4f662918
time      2026-11-01 10:15:04 UTC

Uptime starts when the machine wakes up for a visitor, so a short uptime usually means you woke it.

The stack

Written in Rust with Loco, a Rails-like framework, and rendered on the server with Tera templates.
Templates, styles and images are embedded in a single binary.
SQLite for storage, on a persistent volume.
Styled error pages for every status code. Try /coffee.
Terminal friendly: curl heysam.org prints my résumé.

Where it runs

One shared-CPU Fly.io machine with 256 MB of memory in Dallas, close to home in Austin.
The machine sleeps when nobody's visiting and wakes up on the next request.