The Last Post for This Version

I should have written this over a month ago, but I’m building a new version of starbreaker.org

This is going to be my last post for this incarnation of starbreaker.org. I’ve found that I don’t want to use Markdown or Org mode text for all of my pages; I’d prefer to work with raw HTML whenever possible since building pages with pandoc isn’t scaling quite as well as I had hoped.

Worse, the build process is more complex and error prone than I’d like because of my dependence on data in tab-separated value files. I actually run four make commands to build and deploy my site.

That’s hardly reasonable; I should be able to just run make to build the site, or make install to build and deploy. If I can’t, it’s because I fucked up.

I’ve also been reading and thinking about the ideas presented in the late Mark L. Irons’ Patterns for Personal Websites. There are lots of good ideas that still seem applicable almost 15 years after he last updated his site, and I want to use them myself.

To avoid disruptions and broken links, I am freezing this site as-is and building the new version at new.starbreaker.org. Any new posts or fiction I create will also go there. When I am ready, this version will get moved to an archive site as part of the migration.

I had tried building in stealth mode, but hadn’t gotten nearly as far as I would have preferred. So I’ll try a different approach. Thanks for sticking around.