The short of it is that the blog is moving to tornware.net/blog/ and this site will no longer be updated. I will probably delete it sometime in the future, but not for at least a year. If you're interested in more details, keep reading.
I've had my own website for years now, and the plan was always to move my blog there eventually. Just about everything on my site is self-made, and so I didn't want the blog to be an exception. Existing blogging software is bulky, not exactly what I want, difficult to customize, near impossible to really change the core of, probably come with some caveats like hidden advertising or something, and so on... I know exactly what I want, and I know how to make it, so I don't have to settle for what someone else made. But there were a few problems.
For one, believe it or not, my entire site right now only serves static content. There is no web server processing your requests beyond a simple file server serving you the files you request. And the more I thought about it, the more I realized that blogs are actually kind of complicated. Sure, it may seem like it's just serving a bunch of static html files, but I have over 500 posts - I can't send you all of them every time. Plus you might want to filter them by category, sort by date, search for some keywords, and more. Meanwhile I want to be able to schedule posts to be published in the future, as well as write them from a comfortable web interface, the former of which either requires the ability to automatically schedule a job to change access permissions on a post, or for the file server to validate if the post is allowed to be served, while the latter requires me to implement authentication so that no one else could write on my blog. And then I started thinking of all the other features, like editing, maybe some administration overview, something like Markdown, so I wouldn't have to write raw html anymore... There was a lot of work.
But I don't have a lot of time. I have other, more interesting projects to work on, and I also can't be working every waking hour. The blog is cool, but this blog technically works, so I never felt a sense of urgency. But there was always this nagging at the back of my head that I was going to have to move all the posts, and that was going to become harder and harder as more posts were added here. So I set a cutoff point. No more posts here in April. And I've kept to that promise I made myself. Buuut... aside from research on how to do it and a sort of design document, I haven't found the motivation to actually get started on making the new blog...
But I have the posts ready, and I intend to get them readable on the new blog at roughly the usual times, even if that means that you have to read unformatted plaintext. Let's hope my motivation improves once I get something initial running. If nothing else, the positive is that improvements will seem impressive, considering what we're starting from. Hope to see you there.
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