New Blog, Who Dis?
For the past few months, I've been on-again-off-again working to migrate this site from WordPress hosted on a linux VPS to 11ty ("eleven-tea") hosted on Netlify.
I'd avoided the move for sundry reasons that boiled down to inertia, but a recent weekend spent on maintainance — not to mention the treadmill of re-testing to ensure WP hadn't inadvertantly bloated pages via plugin "upgrade" — finally wore me down.
This is a strictly lateral move in terms of functionality, and writing importers and ensuring that urls didn't break was an adventure I'm not keen to revisit. Most of the complexity has been a consequence of this blog's sFTP-era Blogger → hosted Blogger → html-flavoured-WordPress → markdown-flavoured-WordPress → markdown-in-git transitions. I might write up the process at some point and perhaps publish the import script that consumed so much time, but this "first post!!!!" will have to suffice for now.
The transition has offered me the chance to fix niggling performance issues and opens the door to more and better in future. It has also been nice to have something else to plink away at (besides work) whilst the weeks in isolation flow anonymously, seemingly faster every day.
