Site refresh

It's been a few years now since the last update. Just recently I've felt the itch to write again so I've spent the last few weekends completely re-building the site from the ground up. The last time I did this was well over a decade ago, and I've been hobbling along with a nightmarish mishmash of technologies to publish anything here since¹.

Transferring the site took about a month of weekends and included a 1,000 line Python program for migrating all of the content from the old CMS to a new static site generator that let's me write using Markdown — this is the same CMS that powers both felspar.com and blue5alamander.com². I think this has fixed some things that weren't working between the CMS and the old way of serving those files, but has resulted in a few things that don't look quite so nice — these can be fixed over time though.

Right now all of the old forum posts aren't being shown. I still have them all, and they will be back, but only when I get a chance to write a new forum system. I hope this won't prove to be either too difficult or time consuming (famous last words).

Anyway, I guess I'll see how much I have to really talk about. Watch this space!