This Website Has Become Discombobulated
Some indeterminate time ago, the following message started appearing on this neglected "art blog" of mine:
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.
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.
General plan going forward:
- 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