The migration happened and well… it turns out that it was not as smooth as I expected. In particular, comments weren’t working at all due to a filesystem permission on the database (which meant nothing would get written at all). That is now fixed. Sorry for the problems. To add problems over problems, I had a hardware failure (RAID card) last June, which wrecked the root filesystem and I had to reinstall everything from scratch.

You might have noticed that the blog has a markedly different look than before. It has not only changed visually, but also under the hood. This (brief) post summarizes the reasons behind the change. Why? Simply put, the previous solution was unmaintainable. “But,” you might say, “it was a static site generator! How could it become unmaintainable?”. It can. You might recall I moved from Wordpress to Jekyll about six years ago.