I've moved to Pelican for blogging in 2024. Here's why.
Last year I was using Dotclear for my blogging.
Side note: I find it interesting that their main site at dotclear.org, which uses its own software I'm pretty sure, is down at the time of writing this. Good thing they have a GitHub account.
At some point, the site started serving up the White Screen Of Death. I decided then that I was done with dynamic sites entirely.
I've used a few static site generators before, including Jekyll and Pelican. This time around Pelican seemed to be the easiet to install.
As a bonus, there was a plugin for exporting posts out of Dotclear into Pelican. Luckily, the back-end of Dotclear was still working, so I was able to do the export.
Any posts you see on this site older than this one are part of that export process. Going forward, all posts will be written using reStructuredText and published using Pelican.
Expect more to come in the near future. Ideally, this is supposed to streamline the blogging process. That all comes down to how well I know RST. This will be a learning process.
A script to liberate a stock Slackware-15.0 installation. Motivation: Freenix never released an iso for 15.0. That inspired me to write a script that could transform a stock Slackware installation into something in the spirit of Freenix. Note: This is NOT endorsed by Slackware proper (but I do …
A script to liberate a stock Slackware-15.0 installation. Motivation: Freenix never released an iso for 15.0. That inspired me to write a script that could transform a stock Slackware installation into something in the spirit of Freenix. Note: This is NOT endorsed by Slackware proper (but I do thank Pat for all his hard work). This NOT endorsed by Freenix. This is NOT endorsed by the...
The state of Freenix / Freeslack, Slackware, and the *BSDs (and other contenders) in 2023. I was a Linux distro hopper from 2009 to 2013, when I started mining Bitcoin. At that point, I was using Ubuntu and Arch Linux, mostly. However, I had trouble getting my mining rig to start …
The state of Freenix / Freeslack, Slackware, and the *BSDs (and other contenders) in 2023. I was a Linux distro hopper from 2009 to 2013, when I started mining Bitcoin. At that point, I was using Ubuntu and Arch Linux, mostly. However, I had trouble getting my mining rig to start automatically, and I eventually narrowed down the problem to a lag in systemd...
