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Today is the day!
I've been working for several months to complete the transition off of Wordpress. After making a flurry of updates today, I decided now was as good a time as ever to finally pull the trigger.
This site started on Wordpress in 2007. Over the years, I've …
Posted on in System Administration
I use Pingdom's free service to monitor slaptijack.com. Apparently,
late Friday night, oom-killer decided that the server needed more memory and
took out the MySQL server. To make matters worse, I missed the alarm from Pingdom,
and slaptijack.com was down for pretty much all of Saturday. The fact …
Posted on in Programming
Although I use Git all day long, I actually prefer to use Mercurial for my personal stuff. When I started working on this project to maintain slaptijack.com with Pelican rather than continuing to use Wordpress, one of the things that really interested me was the ability to keep Markdown …
Posted on in Programming
This is was my next project.
Update: For now I've solved this problem by using FeedWordPress to pull the Atom feed for the Pelican-specific portion of the website.
Posted on in Programming
Posted on in Software
I've been using WordPress on this site since 2007. After all this time, I've decided I want to try something new. So, I've decided to go in a completely different direction and start serving static content. There are three things driving my decision to change:
