I finally achieved a thing I've been wanting/meaning to do for ages. I made a simple way to add content to this site. "Made" might be stretching it a little, I discovered pelican some time ago and already use it to build the Teablog for my wife. Its a wonderful tool which allows one to write content for a site in Markdown or reStructured Text.

This means I can store my content as a bunch of text files, which is much easier to manage than loading stuff from a database as I was doing before. It also means that I can get rid of all the PHP that I never want to see again, since it allows the generation of static site pages in the same way using its templating system. It also means I'll be able to store the whole lot in git, but I haven't done that yet, since I've yet to solve the fun of all the random images that I don't want to break links to.

I took this opportunity to also fully redesign the site and make it a bit more modern. The endless blue and one-curved-corner is gone in favour of a foresty green, the colour I'm enjoying most at the moment.

In addition to this, I've also finally migrated this site off my old webhost onto my VPS. This is nice because it takes me one step closer to the thing I started trying to achieve over a year ago; actually moving from my old host to this. Now I just need all the other things I use the old sotk.co.uk place for, like email...

I intend to actually update this place with interesting posts about the things I'm working on in my life, mostly code and sometimes worldbuilding. It will no doubt be interesting to see how long I actually keep it up this time...