.. title: Ahoy
.. slug: ahoy
.. date: 2015-05-31 22:20:09 UTC+01:00
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Sorry for the 6 months that this site has been offline -- in particular for
anyone who's been trying to read the night-climbers transcriptions. My
`RadiantCMS `_ server refused to restart after an Ubuntu
server upgrade, and because Radiant and Rails are a steaming pile of crap when
it comes to package management and code quality, a good 10 or so hours of
configuration fighting failed to resuscitate it. At which point I lost the will
to live.
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This was back in November, and it's an indictment of my risible level of free
time that it's taken half a year to write a script to dump the content database
into plain text files, and to find a static site generator (`Nikola
`_, before which I tried `Pelican
`_) to render them nicely. And I'm very impressed: clean
UI, clear data structure, Markdown and reST format support (among others), and
seamless Disqus comment integration. Good job.
Anyway, that's an over-technical way to say that InsectNation is back on the
air... not fully activated yet, but I'll get the old ROOT rants, night climbing,
and missing images back in place asap. Which hopefully means in less than 6
months!