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The terrible state of my tech

July 18, 2017 /

It’s a bit pathethic how well I have been taking care of my own tech. ever since I started studying. What’s worse: this haven’t improved when I stopped my studies for other ventures. I think the reason for this is exceedingly simple: I don’t like to do work-like things I don’t write about; luckily, I love to structure my goals in writing, and this blog still hasn’t completely collapsed under my neglect.

If I love writing about stuff I do, have I simply not done anything in the past few years? Well, I’ve done things. I’ve even written about them too, in other places, mostly on paper. It’s just that, dispite working for a tech company for the last couple of years, I have done hardly a thing about ridding myself of my private technical debt. Or is it because of working at a tech company, where I’m hard at work fighting technical debts in Python/Django projects and documenting the progress in Redmine?

I won’t mention the reasons why I want to spend time on this weird, hodgy-podgy blog again. Let me just say that the main motivation is not guilt for having created a technical debt. And the actual reasons are better suited for other posts at another time.

Domain Problem Short-term fix Mid-term fix Long-term fix
blog.bigsmoke.us Spam ✔ 2017-07-18 Disable comments and ping/trackbacks on new posts.
✔ 2017-07-18 Disable comments and ping/trackbacks on old posts.
✔ 2017-07-19 Remove spam.
Security Upgrade WordPress svn:external Automatically upgrade WordPress
www.bigsmoke.us Non-responsive Make responsive
Outdated ✔ 2018-10-28 Reduce and update content
* Huge hosting costs Find sinkhole between my NFSN accounts ✔ 2019-01-26Move to cheapsolid VM host (TransIP? Tilaa)
blog.omega-research.org Security Move personal posts to blog.bigsmoke.us and replace with redirects
Replace blog with static rendering of blog
opschoot Wheezy fan Replace or re-attach fan.
Neglected backups Backup monitoring: opschoot should register itself when online and I should then be nagged if I don’t backup.
butler Legacy Move files somewhere else (public?)

NFSN Pools

November 14, 2010 /

From its inceptions, this blog has run on NearlyFreeSpeech.Net’s FreeBSD web hosting service. Because of very clever resource sharing (when not serving visitors, a site hardly takes up resources), their pricing has always been very competitive. That, combined with their technical flexibility, support and transparency has made me more of a fan with every year that I’ve used their service. Still, sometimes I’ve been wanting to use something else than CGI (they support many, many programming languages for CGI – even C/C++) or mod_php, like Rails or Django or mod_perl.

Since April, they offer this possibility, with Pools.

Copyleft: These days everything you can think of is copyrighted, patented, protected or otherwise made into someone's imaginary intellectual property. I have a lot of imagination but not enough to pretend that I have some divine right to share things with you without giving you the right to share it further. That would be childish. So, everything here is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. That means that you can bloody well do anything you like with my content as long as you tell that it's from me (or the respective author). Only if you want to make money from my content do you have to ask me permission first. (As if I could be bothered to sue.) Oh, and you can't redistribute your derivative content under more restrictive terms. Share the love.

Colophon: This weblog is powered by a WordPress installation running on PHP5 and MySQL, hosted by NearlyFreeSpeech.Net's outstanding FreeBSD hosting platform. The markup for this WP theme is my own and should usually validate as some sort of XHTML concoction. So should the CSS. I've actually blogged about this theme.

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