This Website Has Become Discombobulated
Some indeterminate time ago, this old art blog of mine fell prey to code rot. This is what I'm doing about it.
What happened?
Some time in the past decade, the following message started appearing:
Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.
I haven't paid a lot of (or any) attention to "Golabutron 3000" over the years, and this is what happens when you let a Wordpress blog chill out in a shared hosting environment without checking in - sooner or later it just stops working.
What now?
I'd like to keep this old thing around as a personal archive and as a convenient place to host random projects, so this needs to be fixed. I could kick over a few things and get it back up and running in the current hosting environment, but that's not what I'm doing this time.
This blog is essentially a bunch of flat content, and it's kind of silly that such a basic site can just stop working when no changes have been made. So I'm ditching WordPress in favor of a static site. Currently, I'm favoring 11ty as my framework because the easy stuff is easy and the hard stuff is doable with a bit of JS hackery. And the best part is that all of the site-generation code is local, so nobody has to see all of the embarrassing kludges and ill-advised trade-offs I'm making to stitch it all together. You only have to see a small subset of those kludges and trade-offs! You are quite welcome.
TODOs
- Reach parity with the content existing Golabutron 3000 and Bastich pages (with redirects where URLs have changed)
- Add metadata goodness to Bastich (e.g. transcripts, commentary, keywords, etc.)
- Switch hosting environment (Maybe AWS, maybe not)
- Add new content
- Profit