fasterthanlime's CMS, Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii, Building a Website Fit for 1999.

I’ve been bragging about my website software for years! For… whew, it’s been 5 years!

And.. I’m pretty proud of it!

But as soon as you consider open-sourcing something well, then you suddenly have a whole new different set of standards.

Amos is open sourcing the software they’ve been using to author their amazing website.

Amos made a great YouTube short covering the CMS as well:

I’d like my own infrastructure maybe one day to be less Logseq bound, but I don’t think I’d want to fallback to editing Markdown in a editor / IDE, I do like the psuedo-WYSIWYG nature of Logseq quite a bit.

For a long time, I’ve enjoyed the idea of running general-purpose operating systems on decidedly not-general-purpose hardware.

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While browsing the NetBSD website recently, I noticed the fact that there was a ‘Wii’ option listed right there on the front page in the ‘Install Media’ section, nestled right next to the other first-class targets like the Raspberry Pi, and generic x86 machines.

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As soon as I discovered this was fully supported and maintained, I knew I had to try deploying an actual production workload on it. That workload is the blog you’re reading now.

Wii as a web server, what a dope piece of homelab technology.

I currently don’t have a Wii in my possession, honestly I should change that and pull a classic LetterBomb to do my own cursed Wii shenanigans.

There’s even a status page at the moment as well, displaying this:

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blog.infected.systems NetBSD Wii Status
Generated on: Sat Jul 26 01:00:00 UTC 2025

=== uname -a ===
NetBSD wii 10.1 NetBSD 10.1 (WII) #0: Mon Dec 16 13:08:11 UTC 2024  mkrepro@mkre
pro.NetBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/evbppc/compile/WII evbppc

=== uptime ===
 1:00AM  up 95 days,  7:48, 0 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

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Very cool.

Over the last week I’ve had a lot of fun building a little retro-themed website that I’m hosting at home. Inspired by Ruben’s Retro Corner I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, and actually started on it in June last year. More recently Joel Humphries shared on The Sizzle forum that he’d built a little site that he was hosting at home on a Raspberry Pi. This reignited my interest in getting my own site up again. For the fun of it I decided to implement it in HTML4 and serve it over plain HTTP so that it would work on old computers.

What a fun project, it is very cool to see what I’d consider a more modern designed website on a much older browser.

I assume if my site is loaded up on older system, even if it could access it via HTTP (I have Traefik redirecting all HTTP traffic to HTTPS), it would probably still croak.