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Scorched Earth
So, after 4 years of using and maintaining my site, I nuked it and replaced it with a Wordpress blog. Why?
- Most of the content of the site (such as it was) was contained in the blog. The front page, which was supposed to be a place for longer articles, fell into disuse years ago, many articles left incomplete. So it makes sense to just do an all-out blog.
- While my handwritten version of the site worked fine (I particularly liked the “labeling” system I cobbled together), it could never be as fully featured as Wordpress. Additionally, over the years I’ve added little hacks - such as the lame “I am a human” bot protection combo box - the code has fallen into a state of disrepair, which leads me to…
- As I started a third from-the-ground-up rewrite of the site, I realized that it was overkill. I am no longer interested in maintaining code to do the same blogging functionality that everyone else does. Why reinvent the wheel again and again, just to be able to jot down some thoughts on to the internets? It was mostly just a point of pride that I maintained it myself for so long. Life is too short, and I have more worthwhile projects to keep up with.
So here is the new version of the site. I may port the old posts into Wordpress, but it seems unlikely - there wasn’t much there worth keeping. I do need to replace the ugly-ass default theme - which I will probably write myself from scratch (assuming I can think of a worthwhile design).
Will this mean more frequent updates? We’ll see…