I’ve rebooted the blog, having been wanting to post updates for ages, but not particularly wanting to fix the CI/CD pipeline I had pointing to my old colocation setup in London. Seeing as that’s long gone, and I’ve downsized to the small one in the North East, I figured I’d move back to WordPress so I can get a bit more portability of editing.
While the portability of a static blog sounds cool, and you can host it for free in a bunch of places, the reality is there’s a sacrifice you make in where you can edit it. The other challenge I found was trying to remember how to make a blogpost given how infrequently I made them. The idiosyncrasies of markdown with Jekyll formatting. Trying to remember what I called the AppleScript action on my MacBook Pro to resize and format the images for web. Where did I put the SSH keys to commit to git after reinstalling Windows on my PC? Urgh. Just let me log in to a pretty website on my iPad and let some software deal with the hard bit. I can deal with the increased security attack surface with sensible controls.
At some point I might look at translating the old Jekyll posts into WordPress ones, so my previous nerdy content can keep living here.
In the meantime, happy reading.
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