blog: run pages and app immediate after restarted server is set (#75)

Co-authored-by: @theorderingmachine <tom@deorr.co>

Author: zimeg

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ versioning is done in a continuous fashion without worries of breaking changes.
 
 ## patches
 
+- `blog`: run pages and app immediate after restarted server is set 2026-02-02
 - `quintus`: host a calendar service with the kind ordering machine 2026-01-31
 - `claude`: praise agentic developments within emergent code change 2026-01-31
 - `changesets`: save a package to package package changelog entries 2026-01-31

machines/tom/configuration.nix

@@ -89,8 +89,6 @@
     hideMounts = true;
     directories = [
       "/etc/ollama/models"
-      "/srv/blog"
-      "/srv/development"
       "/srv/minecraft/world"
       "/srv/slack"
       "/var/lib/nixos"

machines/tom/systemd/services/blog/default.nix

@@ -10,20 +10,14 @@
       after = [
         "network-online.target"
       ];
-      path = [
-        pkgs.git
+      wantedBy = [
+        "multi-user.target"
       ];
       serviceConfig = {
-        ExecStart = "${pkgs.nix}/bin/nix develop --command bash -c \"npm run host\"";
-        ExecStartPre = [
-          "${pkgs.git}/bin/git pull origin main"
-          "${pkgs.nix}/bin/nix develop --command bash -c \"npm ci --omit=dev\""
-          "${pkgs.nix}/bin/nix develop --command bash -c \"npm run build\""
-        ];
+        ExecStart = "${pkgs.nix}/bin/nix run github:zimeg/blog --refresh";
         Restart = "always";
         RestartSec = 2;
         User = "root";
-        WorkingDirectory = /srv/blog;
       };
     };
     "blog:preview" = {
@@ -34,20 +28,9 @@
       after = [
         "network-online.target"
       ];
-      path = [
-        pkgs.git
-      ];
       serviceConfig = {
-        ExecStart = "${pkgs.nix}/bin/nix develop --command bash -c \"npm run host -- --port 3000\"";
-        ExecStartPre = [
-          "${pkgs.git}/bin/git fetch blog"
-          "${pkgs.git}/bin/git checkout blog/dev"
-          "${pkgs.git}/bin/git reset --hard blog/dev"
-          "${pkgs.nix}/bin/nix develop --command bash -c \"npm ci --omit=dev\""
-          "${pkgs.nix}/bin/nix develop --command bash -c \"npm run build\""
-        ];
+        ExecStart = "${pkgs.nix}/bin/nix run github:zimeg/blog/dev --refresh -- --port 3000";
         User = "root";
-        WorkingDirectory = /srv/development;
       };
     };
   };

machines/tom/systemd/services/quintus/default.nix

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
       after = [
         "network-online.target"
       ];
+      wantedBy = [
+        "multi-user.target"
+      ];
       serviceConfig = {
         ExecStart = "${pkgs.nix}/bin/nix run github:zimeg/quintus --refresh";
         Restart = "always";