This website is powered by:
Editing
- TextMate text editor
- Obsidian markdown editor
- Acorn image editor
- Photos photo library
- iCloud file storage/sync
- NetNewsWire RSS reader
- Audacity audio editor
Publishing
- GoHugo (version 0.152.2) static website generator (run on macOS, via homebrew)
- Custom theme
- Custom search engine with SQLite/PHP running on my server.
- PhotoBlogger - custom app for processing images for publishing to my /photos section
- Hugo Manager - custom app for managing/publishing my Hugo site.
- rsync to upload the generated website
- Cyberduck ftp/sftp transfer
- Standalone RSS Mastodon Bridge - lightweight self-hosted application that posts newly published items to a Mastodon account.
Hosting
- FullHost (Canadian non-cloud-based web host with servers in Calgary)
- Custom standalone comments application (self-hosted, no external dependencies)
- ReusableForms HTML5 contact form (for contact page.)
The combination results in a pretty high-performing website, as calcuated by PageSpeed Insights on March 18, 2025:
Migrations
This site has moved between a growing list of content management applications. There may have been some weirdness through some of the migrations/conversions.
- MobileMe iWeb Publisher - 2002
- Blosxom - 2002 (static files published to Apple iTools/.Mac server)
- MovableType - 2002-2003
- Blosxom - 2004
- WordPress - 2004-2006
- Drupal - 2006-2007
- WordPress - 2007-2019
- Hugo - 2019-
Blog timeline, as of 2007