From 97ecb0411c62f78d9830b242fd7dee738286b915 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lewis Dale Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2024 13:46:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] New post: simplifying things for 2024 --- .../posts/2024/1/simplifying-things-for-2024.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/blog/posts/2024/1/simplifying-things-for-2024.md diff --git a/src/blog/posts/2024/1/simplifying-things-for-2024.md b/src/blog/posts/2024/1/simplifying-things-for-2024.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa972b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/blog/posts/2024/1/simplifying-things-for-2024.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +title: Simplifying things for 2024 +tags: meta +--- + +As I briefly mentioned in my [last post, apologising for spamming RSS feeds](https://lewisdale.dev/post/sorry-for-the-spam/), I've decided to remove Wordpress as my CMS. I've also migrated my account away from my self-hosted Firefish instance, to the account I already held on [https://social.lol/@lewis](Social.lol). + +With Wordpress, I was getting a bit tired of working around it. I've still been using Eleventy to statically generate the actual site, and using Wordpress headlessly. Essentially, I've been using it as a bloated Markdown editor and Webmention service, and had an esoteric build process involving webhook triggers to rebuild my frontend whenever I made a post. In short, it was a pain and a bit brittle. + +Now, I'm back to using just plain Eleventy with hand-written Markdown files, which I exported from Wordpress (and might write a post on how I did it later). I've added some aliases for my various feeds so they should all still work, and functionally there're no differences in how the site functions. + +As for Firefish, apparently it's [maintainer has dropped off](https://catodon.social/notes/9nvp68a5a10zrdi2), and it's future looks uncertain. I could've used one of the infinite other Misskey forks, but I really didn't want to keep changing software. I'm already been paying for [omg.lol](https://omg.lol), and with that comes a Mastodon account anyway, so I may as well use it. + +Anyway, now my site is a bit simpler to work with (and faster to build because I'm not relying on the Wordpress API), I've got a list of things I'd like to get working on it this year - just little projects, but fun nonetheless. \ No newline at end of file