A couple of weeks ago, I randomly noticed that I bought my first
personal domain name – jerkvision.com – 12 years ago on March 27,
2000. That domain isn’t really live anymore – it redirects to
muffinlabs.com, but once upon a time it was my personal website, and
it looked a bit
like this
(I heart the Wayback Machine)
At that point, it was just static HTML, nothing special. I was
actually a little surprised to realize that I hadn’t had my own
personal domain earlier than this. I guess that before that, I stuck
to my old RPI website, and maybe one or two random places where I
might have had a website.
Anyway, this was right around the time that ‘web blogs’ and blog
engines were gaining popularity, and over the years I’ve tried a
bunch, including:
- Movable Type
- Wordpress
- Drupal 4, 5, 6, and 7
And a couple more I can’t even remember.
And now I’m switched to Jekyll, a
slightly different system which generates a static site from a
collection of files that you maintain by hand. It’s a little hackish,
but it’s definitely coder-friendly, and it gives me a few things I was
looking for – mostly decent comment management via Disqus, a speedier
website, and the ability to make random pages without too much effort.
Also, although I like Drupal enough, I also like trying new stuff, so
here goes.