So much for Wordpress

So much for Wordpress

As of today I am officially looking for a self-hosted replacement for WordPress that I can migrate all of my posts to. No, this change will not be soon, but it will happen, and here’s why. They dun fucked up. Oh, it’s still usable, and not broken yet, but the upcoming chaos is inevitable much like watching a train wreck in slow motion. There’s a reason I used WordPress. Not because I couldn’t write my own CMS – Did that for “fun” back in 2002 with the default LAMP stack. I’m no great programm…

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Bloglovin

Bloglovin

Turns out there’s a new aggregator/newsreader service (I mostly use Feedly) called Bloglovin [https://www.bloglovin.com/blog/19400483/?claim=p6a9mn9trcg] May be interesting – others I know are getting set up there. As to why this short post – well, you have to post a claim code, which incidentally makes the blog easier to find, though it is possible to manually enter a blog URL, at least on the web version.…

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Temples of Iron and Searching for Dragons

Temples of Iron and Searching for Dragons

I stumbled across this a while back, and haven’t known how to present it. All I can tell you is that it has given me a lot to think about, a lot to reflect on, and little that I feel I can add. Go look up the blog “templeofiron.org” – originally “searching for dragons” – and especially this post on why it was called searching for dragons [https://templeofiron.org/2017/04/15/searching-for-dragons-explained/]. An excerpt: > Jordan continues ONE OF THE OLDEST DRAMATIC REPRESENTATIONS WE KNOW OF,…

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