First Post
[ tap tap is this thing on? ]
...okay, not first post, but first in a long time.
Really, doing this stuff has become so easy now that I almost feel it is my duty to resurrect the blog. Back in the early aughts, Movable Type was the way to put up a personal blog. In some ways, it held up well. If you look back at the really old articles in the blog, I kept most of the HTML and the styling unaltered. That was before xyz-as-a-service was a big thing, so everyone who did it had to either figure out how to get it working or they paid someone to do it.
What's better now? Everything. Hosting has become stupid cheap, even a dream (for me) setup of a Linux box with full root access by ssh. TLS support is both free and almost idiot proof, thanks to Let's Encrypt. There are any number of static site generators. Even the tedious stuff of editing dozens of old html files (the old posts) is made much less painful because of LLMs. (It might be tough to get help in a tool Cursor with challenging programming, but it does boring tasks like scripts to rewrite links without complaint.)
The aim is always to reduce the friction of publishing personal material (not "content", mind you, the title of the blog is old but the feelings remain) to the point where I could do it every day if I wanted to.
Okay, let's see if we can publish.