This website is powered by:
Editing
- BBEdit text editor
- MacDown macOS markdown editor
- Pretext iOS markdown editor
- Acorn image editor
- Audacity audio editor
- Photos photo library
- iCloud file storage/sync
- NetNewsWire RSS reader
Publishing
- GoHugo (version 0.118.2) static website generator (run on macOS, via homebrew)
- BeautifulHugo theme, with a bunch of customizations to templates and css
- javascript search (generated by Hugo, self-hosted, based on the search functionality in the Hugo Book theme)
- rsync to upload the generated website
- Cyberduck ftp/sftp transfer
Hosting
- Reclaim Hosting
- Disqus comments
- ReusableForms HTML5 contact form (for contact page.)
The combination results in a pretty high-performing website, as calcuated by PageSpeed Insights on July 3, 2023:
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.
- (forgotten Perl? blog app1) - 2001
- 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
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The dot-com bubble had burst, and I was working on some consulting projects out of my home while also trying to learn some new skills to make me more employable. It was something in Perl - I vaguely remember having to get MacPerl to get it running - but I don’t recall for sure. It came on a 2001 MacAddict CD-ROM (they used to ship CD-ROMs full of software back before the internet had enough bandwidth to distribute software through it…) ↩︎