Opnemer.org
static
You may have noticed, the site looks slightly different. The server Opnemer.org is running on is ancient, and there was no way to keep the Wordpress installation up to date.
The solution wat to revert to a static site. No more PHP or MySQL dependencies, no more unpatched vulnerabilities, and --hopefully-- a much faster site.
A blog like structure is impossible to maintain in pure html. Fortunately, there's something called a Static Site Generator: the general structure of the site still resembles something you'd see on a typical Wordpress installation but the entire thing is generated locally, using Markdown or RestructuredText files as source code.
There's a bunch of them, and I suppose the most popular ones are
- Jekyll (Ruby based)
- Hugo (Go based)
- Gatsby (React/Javascript based. There's a whole bunch of JS based SSGs out there)
- Zola (Rust based)
- Pelican (Python based)
I picked Pelican. There's still much to learn but I'm getting there.
Next on the TODO-list: Make this prehistoric layout responsive to smaller screens. Guess I'll be learning about CSS Grid now, too.
it's been a while
It's been nearly ten years since I last posted something. Lots of things happened since then.
I've done lots of things, too. I'll post about all of this in due time.
Love, Erik
back (again)
Hi there.
It's been nearly a year since my last message. Stuff got in the way and I kind of got fed up with the site as it was.
So, I decided to write a theme from scratch. It's mostly the first version of my site with bits updated. It's HTML5 now, too. There are some bugs to be fixed (probably in the hackiest of ways) but I'm mostly happy.
I've been busy, too. Booked some great acts in the first half of 2011, did some video art (clip TBA) and I've mostly been DJing (mixes TBA). And I'm learning how to write wordpress themes from scratch. Great fun.