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Two days ago, when I resurrected this blog, I thought I’d just start from scratch, leaving the 930+ old blog posts forever gone. Then I read how Amit moved from Squarespace to Hugo using the ExitWP tool to convert a Wordpress XML export to markdown files. I had an old export file lieing around and after just a few minutes with ExitWP I had 936 Markdown files, spanning 10 years (2003 — 2013) of my old blog content. ...

I like Analytics on a website, I don’t want to use Google Analytics. That leaves me with only a few options, one it to run my own analytics software somewhere I control. Previously I used Piwik with good success, so it seems sensible to set that up. Piwik has been renamed to Matomo and I haven’t found a simple complete installer. Server Setup I know that I should use something like Ansible to set it up, but I’m doing it by hand for now. ...

One track on the Crystal Caves album is Sideslips. When I recorded it, I also did a video recording. Enjoy:

I spent most of the time setting up this new blog deciding on which template to use. I settled on Casper-Two but had to make changes literally minutes after I started using it. I created a fork, hugo-chaschper and made the following changes: Cleaned up (HTML formatting) Removing the ‘caspertwo’ options (Casper-Two contains two ways of displaying single page content. I have started to remove the one I don’t use) Added support for IndieWeb and IndieAuth. I followed the post IndieWebify Your Hugo Website Support for Webmentions using code from Amits Blot Template and his description Re-surrect the original CSS file so that I can change it Reading time Better organisation of posts (internally) DRYed up display of article preview cards Things to do: ...

This is the experimental duo that I have with Dragica Kahlina. We met musically at a workshop for free improvisation, led by Omri Ziegele and have been experimenting and performing a couple of times.

After a hiatus of many, many years in the blogosphere; after a growing dissatisfaction with the way social media (I’m looking at you, Facebook) is building walled gardens; after the perceived need of having a place for a portfolio of my works, I have decided to resurrect my blog with some new technology and start all fresh. I have also decided to leave the old content buried in a broken database and in an exported XML file. Most of it is no longer technically relevant, and those personal pieces from the past, they are - well - from the past. May they rest in pieces and 404s. ...