This website has been online in various forms since 2002, and is currently powered by:
Editing
- BBEdit text editor
- Obsidian markdown editor
- Acorn image editor
- Photos photo library
- iCloud file storage/sync
- NetNewsWire RSS reader
- Audacity audio editor
Publishing
- GoHugo (version 0.160.1) 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. Captions and tags are generated using ministral-3:3b running in Ollama on my laptop.
- 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)
The combination results in a pretty high-performing website (last tested on March 19, 2026):
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-
