diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8adda2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.drone.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+kind: pipeline
+name: default
+
+steps:
+
+  - name: submodules
+    image: docker:git
+    commands:
+      - git submodule init
+      - git submodule update --recursive --remote
+
+  - name: build and upload
+    image: xsteadfastx/blog
+    environment:
+      FTP_PASS:
+        from_secret: ftp_pass
+    commands:
+      - sudo cp -a /drone/src/. /blog/
+      - sudo chown -R blog:blog /blog
+      - cd /blog
+      - make ftp_upload
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index e85a2ec..6a0ef11 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "pelican-plugins"]
 	path = pelican-plugins
-	url = git@github.com:xsteadfastx/pelican-plugins.git
+	url = https://github.com/xsteadfastx/pelican-plugins.git
 [submodule "pelican-plugins-3rd/ipynb"]
 	path = pelican-plugins-3rd/ipynb
-	url = git://github.com/danielfrg/pelican-ipynb.git
+	url = https://github.com/danielfrg/pelican-ipynb.git
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 472c686..d6e68e2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ PUBLISHCONF=$(BASEDIR)/publishconf.py
 
 FTP_HOST=xsteadfastx.org/
 FTP_USER=xstead_0
-FTP_PASS=`cat .ftp_pass.txt`
+#FTP_PASS=`cat .ftp_pass.txt`
 FTP_TARGET_DIR=/
 
 SSH_HOST=localhost
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ stopserver:
 	@echo 'Stopped Pelican and SimpleHTTPServer processes running in background.'
 
 publish:
-	$(DOCKER_COMPOSE_CMD) $(PELICAN) $(INPUTDIR) -o $(OUTPUTDIR) -s $(PUBLISHCONF) $(PELICANOPTS)
+	$(PELICAN) $(INPUTDIR) -o $(OUTPUTDIR) -s $(PUBLISHCONF) $(PELICANOPTS)
 
 ssh_upload: publish
 	scp -P $(SSH_PORT) -r $(OUTPUTDIR)/* $(SSH_USER)@$(SSH_HOST):$(SSH_TARGET_DIR)
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ dropbox_upload: publish
 	cp -r $(OUTPUTDIR)/* $(DROPBOX_DIR)
 
 ftp_upload: publish
-	$(DOCKER_COMPOSE_CMD) lftp ftp://$(FTP_USER):$(FTP_PASS)@$(FTP_HOST) -e "set ssl:verify-certificate no; mirror -R --ignore-time --no-perms --parallel=4 -e --use-cache -v $(OUTPUTDIR) $(FTP_TARGET_DIR); quit"
+	lftp ftp://$(FTP_USER):$(FTP_PASS)@$(FTP_HOST) -e "set ssl:verify-certificate no; mirror -R --ignore-time --no-perms --parallel=4 -e --use-cache -v $(OUTPUTDIR) $(FTP_TARGET_DIR); quit"
 
 ftp_upload_clean: publish
 	$(DOCKER_COMPOSE_CMD) lftp ftp://$(FTP_USER):$(FTP_PASS)@$(FTP_HOST) -e "set ssl:verify-certificate no; mirror -R --no-perms --parallel=4 -e -v $(OUTPUTDIR) $(FTP_TARGET_DIR); quit"
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 9e3f489..ccc3b46 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 version: '3'
 services:
   blog:
-    build:
-      context: writing_env/
-      image: xsteadfastx/blog
+    build: writing_env/
+    image: xsteadfastx/blog
     container_name: blog
     environment:
       - BLOG_UID=1000
diff --git a/writing_env/Dockerfile b/writing_env/Dockerfile
index 7d2b59c..3b704d1 100644
--- a/writing_env/Dockerfile
+++ b/writing_env/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM alpine:edge
+FROM alpine:3.9
 
 ENV LANG C.UTF-8
 ENV SSL_CERT_FILE /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
diff --git a/writing_env/root/home/blog/playbooks/writing_env.yml b/writing_env/root/home/blog/playbooks/writing_env.yml
index 05cb3ec..020bf68 100644
--- a/writing_env/root/home/blog/playbooks/writing_env.yml
+++ b/writing_env/root/home/blog/playbooks/writing_env.yml
@@ -16,11 +16,13 @@
           - ca-certificates
           - coreutils
           - curl
+          - cython
           - gcc
           - git
           - grep
           - imagemagick
           - lftp
+          - linux-headers
           - make
           - musl-dev
           - nodejs