Hooray! I've updated the blog! I started this iteration of my blog in 2009 using Wordpress. It used to run on an Amazon SES instance. Because the instance was running a virtual Linux, it required constant updating from me, and so I moved the whole blog to Google App Engine in 2011, making my own version of Wordpress to run on the platform. They promised no need for me to maintain the server, and it was easy to code using Java and Eclipse, tools that I knew well. Since things rarely remain the same for long, it turned out that it did require some maintenance, constantly updating to new versions of libraries used by the Google backend. In the end their system became so bloated and difficult to understand, that I decided it was time to move on.
This time most of the user facing pages of my blog are good old static html. Being a programmer, I found it easiest to make my own templating engine. My blog posts live on my own PC, in .txt files, and are translated to .html files using my C# command line program. Then I upload all the changed files to my git repository, and the CloudFlare servers automatically update the files to their server. Simple and fast, the whole process takes only seconds! And it's free, so no complaints there!
I've updated/repaired all of the old pages of the blog. You should go look at how Driftmoon started.
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