Hello Hugo
After having received a bill for 200$ from the previous hosting provider, after some serious vulnerability was discovered in WordPress, and inspired by the “indie web” movement, I decided that I will too move to just static pages. It is much easier to deploy, there’s zero vendor lock-in, etc. I can now just open up a text file, scribble something, and out it will go. From the saved money (>100$), I will instead buy something nice.
About migration - wp2hugo was great! It even saved some old comments that had
good information. But really from now if you want to write something then just
e-mail me. GMail provides nice spam filtering functionality so it seems like
it’s a much better way of contacting instead of trying to reimplement the same
through captchas, etc.
What I am up to
Currently, thinking a lot about observability (o11y) in general. How to estimate whether one’s investments into developing o11y capabilities pay off? Seems to me like it is really hard to do that. One can develop lots of features but are they really helping to reduce time to recovery? To me it looks like it is very variable. So, the winning strategy is to probably create lots of different capabilities and integrate everything into one, coherent web platform so that users wouldn’t have to jump through a ton of different pages, to keep the mental overhead as low as possible.
I am also thinking a lot about how position Thanos better as a project. To me it looks like we should ruthlessly focus on implementing the basics so well that Thanos could be used as a platform to implement other features on top of. Even after almost 10+ years of development, I feel like a lot of basic places are lacking. So, that’s what I will focus on next. But I digress.
I should probably invest into some theme, to make this site look better. I may do that in time but it’s not the focus. I remember there was a meme some (long?) time ago about how WordPress sites with the default theme(-s) have the most content. I still believe that’s true. Sometimes some people get distracted and tyr to micro-optimize everything on their sites instead of just focusing on the content. I try to avoid that.
A related topic is “ricing” your operating system. Yes, you can spend a ton of time trying to find the perfect color scheme, perfect key bindings but really in the end we should just use our computers, just focus on writing the code - every thing around that will just come naturally. At least that’s what I think.
After migration to Hugo, I also removed all Google Analytics/Adsense. They are paying not a lot in exchange for pestering my reads with tracking, ads, etc. Blogging was always a hobby for me, I don’t earn money from it directly.
Now onwards to some technical posts!