This site has suddenly undergone a large amount of changes! It looks different, it’s built differently, it has more (non-blog) content, and it runs on freedom (by that I mean OpenBSD servers located in Amsterdam). Let’s pretend you have questions and here are my answers:
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How is this site built?
By hand! This site is now built through manual typing of HTML files, no generators or blog engines involved. Now I want to be clear, Pure Blog is freaking amazing, Kev has done some great work on it (and heck, I even contributed a tiny change to it), but you know me (well maybe you don’t). I change my mind often, and this is just one of those cases. I might even end up back on Pure Blog someday!
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What runs this site?
This site has gone from a Laravel Forge VPS to a OpenBSD server from OpenBSD Amsterdam. I don’t love the way Laravel and co have been heading (AI bros to say the least), but I do love the way OpenBSD Amsterdam operates. Talk with your wallet folks!
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Hand coding everything? Surely you can’t be serious!
I am serious, and don’t call me Surely!
I can’t explain it, but having complete and total control, as well as total ownership over every line of code is a nice feeling. Yeah, it’s clunky. There’s
rsync, Sublime Text, and a whole lotta copy+paste involved. But I love it. -
But like…you don’t hand type the RSS feed, right?
Um. Of course not. That would be silly. Imagine opening the RSS XML file in Sublime and copy+pasting all the metadata from the article into it. Haha.
Please help me.
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Where are the old posts?
I’ll be slowly converting over my old posts in the coming weeks!
If you dig the new vibes around these parts, let me know!